Creation of a Children's Picturebook
What Will We Do in this Course?
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: What Will We Do in this Course?
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you what we are going to do in the course, what the process will be, what you need to carry it out and how you can take what you learned further.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: What Will We Do in this Course?, 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
“What Will We Do in the Course? This course will give you the tools so you can plan and create a mock-up for a picture book. First, I'll show you examples from the history of art, where you'll learn how to create a scene and how to work with visual narrative. In the art of those times, before the invention of writing, eloquence in visual narrative was so important that we can learn a lot from them. I'll show you early examples of picture books and examples of my own work, so you can see how to visually narrate something with multiple pages-- the pace of the pages, how to construct the rhythm...”
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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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