Creation of a Children's Picturebook
Characterization, Character and Point of View
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Characterization, Character and Point of View
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you how I use appearance, gesture, and facial and body expression to characterize my characters and to achieve their particularity. I'm going to also show you the resources I use to achieve consistency of those traits throughout the visual narrative. I will also talk to you about how to define who tells the story from the image and from the text and the implications that this has in terms of meaning.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: Characterization, Character and Point of View, 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
“Characterization, Character, and Point of View In picture books, the characterization, the creation of the characters, is primarily supported by the visuals. With examples from my books, I'm going to show you how I determine and construct my characters. Let's check it out. In my book "Two Mice, One Rat, and One Cheese Block," I decided to use animals and appeal to characteristics we assume about them. In this story, a clever rat takes advantage of two naive mice who are fighting over a big piece of cheese by intervening. Coming in, the rat dominates the scene as a wise mediator in the confl...”
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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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