Creation of a Children's Picturebook

Creation of a Children's Picturebook

“Dear students, we have reached the end of the course. I have told you about my work, how I became the author of the album book and the decisions and the people that influenced and helped me achieve it. We then took a brief tour of the history of visual storytelling to understand important elements to create an album book such as the representation of a scene, the creation of a visual sequence and how to narrate with images in combination with a text. We also talked a bit about the visual creation of the characters and the graphic definition of the place where our story is going to take place. After illustrating and commenting on these principles and explaining how the storyboard is the most useful tool to apply them, we move on to creating your own album project. The first step was to understand the particularities of an album text. Then you went on to select it and develop the thumbnails and the storyboard applying the principles defined on narration and visual sequence.

To finish, you translated your final storyboard into mock-up form, to understand if the rhythm and sequence defined by the turning of the pages was going well. You already have the first mockup of an album book, but the most important thing is that you learned the principles that you can apply to your future projects and you understood what is required to achieve it. Now is the time for you to put it into practice, plan one or more projects (either from a text of yours or a borrowed one) and start working, always knowing that persistence and the attitude of always learning is what is going to you. allow your purposes to be achieved. Keep learning and don't wait for an answer when you submit your first proposal. Move on to a next project while you wait. Think that the most valuable thing is the process. Good luck. ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project I hope I've given you what you need to know about the rules that govern visual rhetoric and the combination of text and image so you can understand the distinctive features of a picture book. Now it's time to put this in practice, so I'm going to summarize for you the steps you'll take to complete your final project. To start your project, choose a text that may be yours or borrowed. What matters is that it's a text that sets a clear setting visually or in the reader's mind. After you've chosen the text you want to work with, I invite you to research the origin a little becaus...”

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Course summary for: Creation of a Children's Picturebook

• Level: Beginner
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• 8749 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 43m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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