Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
The Materials
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: The Materials
Overview
“What can be done with our materials? I will teach you how to use graphite pencils and colored pencils to generate hues, contrasts, focal points, and so on. Here you will become familiar with this technique so that you can begin to illustrate it.”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: The Materials, 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
“Our materials Welcome to our materials lesson. Here we will see how we can use pencils, colored pencils, how I combine them to create different tones, and how we can also enhance them to generate different sensations when illustrating. Like, for example, a warmer illustration, a cooler illustration, a slightly more mysterious illustration, and so on. Pencils are made up of graphite with a little lime and clay added. If you have ever noticed the numbering of pencils, they are marked with letters and numbers that go from H to B, going through 2H, 3H, 4H and also 2B, 3B, 4B, and so on. B and H...”
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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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