Creation of a Children's Picturebook
What is A Picturebook? The Narrative and Eloquent Power of the Image
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: What is A Picturebook? The Narrative and Eloquent Power of the Image
Overview
“In this lesson you will see how storytelling with pictures is fundamental in defining the picturebook. I am going to show you how to narrate visually and the rhetorical and eloquent possibilities of the image with examples from ancient art. We will analyze representation, hierarchy, temporality and movement, the symbolic and the explanatory. I will show you several resources of the visual language that will help you when you go to make your own picturebook project.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: What is A Picturebook? The Narrative and Eloquent Power of the Image, 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 is a Picture Book? Your project's a picture book. Let's start defining what that is. I'll give a brief, concise definition, and as we go through the course, you'll understand better what it is and its possibilities. Let's get started. A picture book combines a visual narrative and a verbal narrative within its pages. But that's not quite enough. Not all illustrated books are picture books. In a picture book, the text and the image weave together the meaning of the narrative, they construct the story together. The verbal and visual narratives are interdependent, such that if you separat...”
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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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