Creation of a Children's Picturebook
The Game Between Text and Image
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: The Game Between Text and Image
Overview
“Through drawing examples and in my work, I will teach you the possible dynamics between text and image in the picturebook and how to avoid symmetry through counterpoint, tension and ironic relationship.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: The Game Between Text and 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
“The Interplay Between the Text and the Image When I told you about the definition of a picture book, I mentioned that what separates it from other illustrated genres, illustrated books, is that both the image and the text help tell the story. The illustration, the image, isn't there to clarify the text, to make it prettier, more decorative, or to go with or repeat what's in the text, but rather the image tells a part of the story. So that if you just read the text or see the image separately, you won't understand the story. The two go together, not just repeating, but in an interplay, makin...”
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Course summary for: Creation of a Children's Picturebook
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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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