Illustrating and Writing a Children's Book
Last Tips
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: Last Tips
Overview
“Finally, I want to give you some tips that will help you continue with your future projects. ”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: Last Tips, 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
“Last tips We are reaching the end of our project and I want to share some tips on how to save your artwork, how to file it and protect it from dust or moisture. Cover the illustrations with a flap or protective paper. Put them in marked envelopes or folders. Always keep them in a cool place away from the sun, such as drawers or plastic containers. Some things to keep in mind when showing your project to an editor are: presenting your ideas in an organized way. Saving all your processes, for example, text snippets, some paragraphs, sketches, individual ideas, etc. Something an editor can see...”
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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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