Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
Before Starting
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: Before Starting
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you two picture books so that together we can discover their secrets and understand how they work. This will give you some ideas that you can apply in your book. ”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: Before Starting, 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
“Before we start Before starting, it is important to consider references and see the differences between a classic and a modern book. How the illustrations behave, how the text looks, what resources are used and what things can you take from each of them to add them to your project. The first example I will show you is "The Jungle Book." It is one of my favorite books and in this edition, illustrated by Stuart Tresilian, I like the classic character of its illustrations. Here I want to show you how that relationship between text and image works. If we look closely, the text retains its space...”
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Course summary for: Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
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Category
Illustration -
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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