Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story

Overview

“From the elements of the structure of a book, I will explain how an illustrated book works. You will see how to tell stories through sequential images. I will address the meeting point of the narrative structure of comic books and illustrated albums.”

In this video lesson Weberson Santiago addresses the topic: How a picture book works, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story. Learn composition techniques for illustrating a story from first idea to final prototype.

Partial transcription of the video

“How an Illustrated Book Works In this lesson, I'll show how the structure of a book works, so you can use all the possibilities to tell your story. Let's start with the book "Hipopô". "Hipopô" is the story of a little hippo who isn't small, he's big, he's born big, and it narrates the story of him growing up. It has a traditional format, in which there's little text and a lot of images, but the text is always connected to the composition in a harmonious manner and in a way that the illustration takes up most of the page. Now I'm going to show you another book called "Pipa ou Papagaio". "Pip...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (177)
• 4470 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 45m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration