Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
Picture Book Morphology
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: Picture Book Morphology
Overview
“The book as a container for text and images must also be thought out and requires planning. It is important to make narrative decisions such as, for example, how much space will our illustrations occupy, how will they relate to the text, will there be sequences, bullets, double pages? Here we will begin to give the story a book form.”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: Picture Book Morphology, 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
“Morphology of the illustrated book Now we have the script ready and we saw what the characters are like, it's time to set down our ideas on a map that will serve as a guide to make our entire book: the illustrations, the text, to know how much we should write, how much we should illustrate and how we will combine both on the pages of our book. At this point we will no longer take the ideas in outline format as in the script, rather, we will be more literal and think of the book as an object. We will think about the pages, the dimensions of those pages, if we want them square, if we want the...”
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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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