Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll start thinking about scenarios. It may seem a little scary because some people always think of techniques, like perspective, in a complex way, but in order to create a good scenario, the most important thing is to create an atmosphere in which the characters interact and integrate themselves as a whole.”

In this video lesson Weberson Santiago addresses the topic: Scenario, 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

“Set In this lesson, we'll talk about sets. Sets can sometimes scare whoever is drawing them because you have to think about perspective, vanishing points, fish-eye view, all of that is important, but not essential. The important thing for an illustrated book is to think about creating an ambiance so that it's clear where this character lives, what his universe is like. Keeping in mind the story we want to tell. A good example is Moebius, how he did that. How he created this environment, that was most important. There are a lot of details, but the environment is what's most important. We can...”

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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