Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers

Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers

“We have reached the end of the course. I hope it has been useful and motivating for you. I have had a great time collecting and sharing everything that I have believed could help to better focus how to make an album and make it fun for everyone. I'm going to give you a short summary of some important topics that we have seen throughout the course: • How important it was for me to move and start my first self-published projects. • The authors who inspire us and who in their work can understand what communicating with images is and that to make an album we do not need to have a Nobel Prize in Literature, but to think ideas through the image. • Be clear about what a picture book is and how something apparently so simple has complex mechanisms. • How an illustrated album can be used taking into account the relationship between text-image-support. • How to communicate with the little ones, understand what a structure is and how it will make it easier for us to distribute the information of our idea throughout the book. • Find the main idea and add some support points to make it richer. • The importance of seeing images so that ideas can come up. • Define a starting point. • How to move the project. • The importance of the cover and how it also gives us information about the content of the book. Our starting point was the idea of the game, in my case the hide and seek, but infinite ideas could be made differ with this premise. I am looking forward to seeing yours and for us to learn from each other with what each of us is going to share on the forum. Share the main parts of your creative process and the result. We want to see what you have created! I proposed you make a mock-up for the presentation of the project since it is less and less common to present it on paper. But I do invite you to print it and make your book, long live desktop publishing! It is a good way to learn by doing the whole process, enjoying the idea, the drawing, but also other parts that will make us grow, such as choosing paper. In addition to being interested in the beautiful world of typography and thinking about alternative ways to a more industrial binding.

Extra page Final page Thank you so much for everything! I hope you play a lot and see you through the forum. Have a little patience if I do not respond at the moment, sometimes I am a bit like Tomás, the snail of the project;) ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project HAVE YOU SEEN MY PET? We've reached the end of the course. I hope you had fun and learned from each lesson we've seen. Before leaving I'd like to go over some key points from the course. Never forget you can communicate with a good idea and image. You don't need to be a writing expert or to communicate with words, images can take you wherever you want. Bear in mind the importance of working on ideas. Devote all the time you need to preparing your structure and storyboard, they will define your story and will be key to your picturebook. Authors and readers have something in com...”

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Course summary for: Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (79)
• 1261 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 25m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Collage, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration