Creation of a Children's Picturebook
Definition of the Characters and the Setting
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Definition of the Characters and the Setting
Overview
“In this lesson, we will define who and what the characters will be like in our story and their relationship to the setting. We will make a map of the scenario and in this we will define the movement of the character (s) during the story. ”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: Definition of the Characters and the Setting, 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
“Defining Characters and Setting Now that storyboard's full of pieces, it's time to figure out what our scene and characters will look like. First, I'm gonna do some research on what my characters, their outfits and environment looked like. I'll be searching terms like "Gotham" and "Gotham's three wise men." And I'll learn about King John, the one from the legend. If I type in "Gotham's three wise men," I get pictures like these. I'd usually just print the ones I find the most interesting, the ones I think are gonna be useful for characterization and world building. I like this image. Partic...”
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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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