Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
Let's Start Illustrating
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: Let's Start Illustrating
Overview
“Here you will start to make the final illustration of your mockup. Get your materials ready, because now you will get to work to create the image of your story. ”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: Let's Start Illustrating, 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
“Let's start illustrating We have the conceptual process of the project ready, and it's time to finish the illustration that will be the gateway to the book. Let's start. Here I have the linework of the second sketch I made for the personality or the mood of the story, which is Lucía and Joaquín's meeting their ghost aunt. I did this first linework version with a B pencil, which is the lightest of the ones I am using. I'll start to do a whole first layer of shadows and highlights and midtones, all with the same pencil. When I'm filling in an area I like to follow the contour lines, I don't c...”
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Course summary for: Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
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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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