Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
Touch Ups and Preparation for Print
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Touch Ups and Preparation for Print
Overview
“I do the final touch-ups in Procreate working with the Ipad. Going into every detail is important, it’s a bad feeling when you hold the printed product in your hand and some mistake bothers you. So I go along all the outlines to see if they are smooth, etc. I usually print it out which makes me note mistakes more than when I look only at the screen.”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Touch Ups and Preparation for Print, 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
“Touch ups & preparation for print It's not the best of feelings when you finally get your printed product in your hands, you open it and to your illustration and lo and behold, the first thing that meets your eye is a big mistake, like a hand with only four fingers. And that's why we are going to take these touch ups now very seriously. After a bit of contemplation, it's time to do the final touch ups and corrections. My first one is a biggie because I have to make it all a bit bigger. It's too small and there's still a lot of space around it, so... And I also think that Anubis looks a ...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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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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