Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
The Complete Mockup
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: The Complete Mockup
Overview
“In this lesson, I will explain how to organize all the material you have so far to turn it into a mockup that you can show to an editor. ”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: The Complete Mockup, 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 complete mockup We are near the end of our project. And now we must return to the map of our story to turn it into a mockup that allows you to see the entire book. Let's get started. The first thing I did was scan the pages of my journal where I had drawn the map of the story. I scanned it at a good resolution to be able to copy, paste, modify, take, bring, do everything I need without worrying that the images will be pixelated. For this step it is not necessary to make a lot of adjustments. We don't have to clean, no need to modify the contrast or the levels because we will use the sam...”
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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 work weaves together textual narration with images to 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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