Creation of a Children's Picturebook
Reviewing the Sequence, Relationship Between Text and Image and Eloquence
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Reviewing the Sequence, Relationship Between Text and Image and Eloquence
Overview
“Now, in the storyboard, we will edit the text, analyze the possibilities of counterpoint and eliminate the parts of the text or image that imply symmetry. We will also review the storyboard looking for ways to take the representation of the images further so that they are eloquent. The storyboard will be ready to build the mockup. ”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: Reviewing the Sequence, Relationship Between Text and Image and Eloquence, 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
“Editing the Sequence, Relationship Between Text and Image, and Eloquence Now that we have our storyboard, we're going to start editing it. We make a storyboard in order to have the whole book on a single page so we can check its readability, its progression, the relationship between the text and the images, consistency, causality. These elements are really important to be able to read a picture book and for it to be an effective book. So here I have a more detailed storyboard. Generally you make a number of versions, seeing what works and what doesn't. This is an example of how I would edit...”
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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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