Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story

Overview

“Here I will explain what is the pace of reading a book. Although it depends a lot on the reader, the reading of an image is created by the illustrator with visual elements, such as those mentioned in previous classes. It is through composition and creativity that we can encourage the reader to want to move faster between pages and at other times to enjoy a particular scene for longer.”

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

“Rhythm In this lesson, I'll show you examples of reading rhythm. The first example I have is a book by Istvan called "Zoom". It's a classic, published all around the world. It's a book without text, just images. You can see a detail on the first scene. We don't know what it is, the reading rhythm is very slow. There's always a black page on the left and an image on the right. And we find out at each turn of the page that we're zooming out, as if the camera were moving away from the image, which looks huge at first. At each turn of the page, that large scene becomes smaller in relation to wh...”

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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