Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
The Mood of the Story
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: The Mood of the Story
Overview
“Taking the excerpt that you chose to form the mood of your story, and that will be the pillar of your project, it is important to do some explorations before starting to illustrate, and here I show you how to do it. ”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: The Mood of the 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
“The mood of the story The encounter with the ghost is the most important part of my story and I designed the map to lead to that specific point. I like to call that image the mood or personality of the story. It is the most important part, not because it is necessarily the climax of your story or because it is the end or the beginning, but because it is what will give your project personality. It is the part that motivates you the most to do the rest of your story. This part is key and allows us to visualize what will happen in the story, not only in narrative terms, but in terms of illustr...”
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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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