Creation of a Children's Picturebook
Choosing the Text and Its Possible Visual Interpretations
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Choosing the Text and Its Possible Visual Interpretations
Overview
“In this lesson, we will read the story I have chosen, do some research on its origin to look for interpretation possibilities, and make some initial sketches of the story options that come to mind. You should also choose the story that seems most suggestive to you and you can carry out the same process.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: Choosing the Text and Its Possible Visual Interpretations, 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
“Selecting a Text and Possible Visual Interpretations In this lesson, I'll talk to you about how to choose an appropriate text for a picture book, one that'll fit accordingly to the visual narrative of the image. Like I hinted when we studied the book "Hector Protector" by Maurice Sendak, we're going to use a similar text. A rhyme or a round of just four verses taken from the collection "Mother Goose," from 1765. And the rhyme goes like this: "Three wise men from Gotham Set out to sail in a bowl. If the bowl had been stronger, My story would have been longer." You can choose one of the two t...”
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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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