Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
How to Get to a Story?
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: How to Get to a Story?
Overview
“Here I will show you all the ways to get closer to your story. I will make a story of mine, so you can see the step by step, but the point is that you imagine your own and build it as I go.”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: How to Get to a Story?, 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
“How to get to a story? I will show you all the roads that will take you to a story. But first I will tell you how I came up with the idea for my latest book, "Mi monstruo y yo." Let's get started. There are two main characters. The first is a seven- or eight-year-old girl. She remains anonymous throughout the story. And the second is a monster. This monster was the trigger for the whole story, what made me want to build the story. Before knowing who the girl was, what happened to her and how each of the events in the book would take place, I thought of this monster. This monster was challen...”
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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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