Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story

Overview

“In this class, I’m going to talk about some elements of visual language. You will meet some of them individually so that everything makes sense when we mix it up. Remember: every image is the result of integration and interaction between these elements.”

In this video lesson Weberson Santiago addresses the topic: Elements of design 1, 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

“Drawing Elements 1 In this lesson, I'll show you some visual elements. We'll work with some individually and then put things together in our composition. Let's do this! POINT To start looking at elements for visual language, I'll start from the point. The point, something very simple, but very valued graphically. People think: "It's just a point." But graphically-speaking it has a lot of significance within a structure. We can call it support, plane, structure, I'll call it support, because it can be our screen, our paper, our notebook, and wherever the point is, it's very appealing, that's...”

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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