Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
Influences
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now I will tell you about my influences and why they are so important to my work. I will tell you some anecdotes about my favorite picture books, curious facts that will help you understand how the world of illustration for children's books works and that will open your mind to other possibilities.”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book. Discover the world of picturebooks and learn how to tell stories with text and images.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Hello, in this lesson I'll talk about my influences, the artists and specific works that have inspired me throughout my career. Let's get started. Although there are many things that influence creative work and it is difficult to decide on one or the other, I think there are some that have been present since I decided to start illustrating children's books. One of them, and the most important of all, is "Alice in Wonderland," both the novel, the written text and its illustrations and all the work that has been derived from this work, which is one of the great exponents of childre...”
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Course summary for: Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration, Writing
Valentina Toro
A course by Valentina Toro
Valentina Toro is an illustrator and writer with a master’s degree in Creative writing from the EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia. Her work revolves around her fascination with the unknown and the secret worlds that can only be discovered in books.
Over the course of her career, she has published seven books, five of which are children’s books. Her work weaves together textual narration with images to create universes inhabited by both forms of expression. She has also written three novels and done illustrations for other authors. She was a runner up in the Little Hakka Picture Book Competition in China and is currently represented internationally by Advocate-Art Inc.
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