Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
Now Choose Your Own Book
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Now Choose Your Own Book
Overview
“To choose your text to illustrate, let’s play a game of brainstorming. Then we will take a peek at actual book covers, for reference. This helps to get our bearings and to define what NOT to do. We will make a list of things that could form part of our illustration and proceed to do our image search.”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Now Choose Your Own Book, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story. Learn the secrets of conceptual illustration to create an eye-catching book cover using analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now let's choose your own book In this course, you will make your own book cover, illustrated book cover, for a work of fiction. To start with, we have the measures. And now is the time to think about the text you are going to illustrate. I want you to choose a text that you really like, but it doesn't have to be a famous book and it doesn't have to be your favorite book. It must be a book, however, that brings a lot of images into your mind right away. And to find out if this text is really the best text for you, I want to do this very simple test with you. Think about what's in your book ...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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