Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
The Script
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: The Script
Overview
“The script is one of the most important parts of creating your story. It is like preparing the ground and laying the foundations on which all the bricks will be raised. Besides, it will allow you to work with greater security on what you are doing. ”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: The Script, 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
“The main script Hello, now that we know a little about our story, we found its shape and we asked the necessary questions to find the characters, the situations and the main events that will happen in it, it's time to organize our ideas and turn them into a script. The essential thing is that you know that for the script you don't need to write out the whole story chapter by chapter. You will only set down the main ideas that will help you shape and structure, and how you will do the illustrations and how much text you will you have to write. Here is the script for my story. As I told you i...”
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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 style can be described as a blend of textual narration with images that 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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