Creation of a Children's Picturebook
About Me
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“To begin, I am going to tell you a little about who I am, what I do and what are the steps that have been important in my career to learn and move forward.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of a Children's Picturebook. Learn how to plan and create your picturebook project from scratch combining narrative and illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction Hello. My name is Claudia Rueda, and I'm a picture book author, that is, I create visual literature. I love the idea of exploring the rhetorical possibilities of images and their combination with text. I've published over 30 picture books in countries like Mexico, Spain, the United States, and Colombia. They've been translated to 13 languages in Asian and European countries. My work has been nominated for prizes, such as Hans Christian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren, and have been on the prestigious The New York Times Best Seller list. I'm Colombian and I live in Bogota, but when...”
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Course summary for: Creation of a Children's Picturebook
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Claudia Rueda
A course by Claudia Rueda
Colombian author and illustrator Claudia Rueda is a New York Times best-selling author with over thirty published illustrated books. Her work has been published in the US, Mexico, Spain, and has been translated into more than fifteen languages in Asia and Europe. She was also nominated for major awards such as Hans Cristian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren.
Claudia studied Law and Arts and worked as a political caricaturist in Colombia. She then furthered her studies in children’s book illustration at UC Berkeley. She has a master’s in creative writing from Lesley University and won the Billie M. Levy investigation grant from the Children’s Literature Collection from the North-West. Claudia is also a teacher in the creative writing masters at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
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