Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story

Overview

“In this lesson, I will explain how to think of a more extensive narrative to compose an entire book. I will talk about how to plan the main stages of the story, in addition to thinking about what we want to tell and in the sequence of the scenes with beginning, middle and end (introduction, conflict, climax, turning point and outcome).”

In this video lesson Weberson Santiago addresses the topic: Book Map, 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

“Mapping the Book In this lesson, I'll show you how you can explore the narrative more extensively. I'll use my book as an example, "O invasor". This was something personal from my life. That's where I got the idea, but ideas aren't born ready. They develop, but like you saw in the sketchbook lesson, write things down, register, so you can evolve it, and if you're not sure about the text for the book, you can start from the drawings. Everything helps. I have the map I made for the book "O invasor". I already showed you some of it earlier, but all the notes are here, the main ideas. Then I de...”

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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