Creation of a Children's Picturebook
Finishing the Mockup
A course by Claudia Rueda , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Finishing the Mockup
Overview
“In this last lesson I will show you how to finish your mockup, create a cover and staple it to be shipped. I will also give you some tips on how to prepare the mockup and send it for editors and calls.”
In this video lesson Claudia Rueda addresses the topic: Finishing the Mockup, 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
“Finishing the Mockup We're at the last stage of our course. We're gonna finish our mock-up. I've decided to add a cover. Sometimes I'll do it like that, sometimes I'll add a color cardboard with the book title. And you can also add your name, your contact information if you plan on sending it to an editor, a competition, to friends. We've added the holes to sow it up. When you open it, you can see the mock-up I'd shown you before. Time to bind it up. I'm going to use this hemp string. Since these holes are huge, I won't need a needle. Just intertwine it. I like this binding style. There's s...”
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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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