Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers
Looking for the footholds
A course by maria_ramos , Illustrator and Author of Children’s Books
About the video: Looking for the footholds
Overview
“Here we will enrich the main idea. You will see how to search for elements to add more concepts and ideas and close the content of the book.”
In this video lesson maria_ramos addresses the topic: Looking for the footholds, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers. Experiment with illustration and learn how to tell children's stories through images.
Partial transcription of the video
“Looking for pillars In this lesson, we will look at how to find a framework that can enrich the main idea. I'll take the clippings. We've chosen this idea of the game that this image represents, but I'll look for more images that might look like they are unrelated but they'll help me to look for new concepts that I think will suit my project. We don't need to know the relationship they'll have now. We'll choose them without a connection, relating them later. I like, or think it will work for my story, this snail, which conveys the concept of these animals, which people call bugs, and I can ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Collage, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration

maria_ramos
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María Ramos is an illustrator who specializes in all types of children's literature from picturebooks to comics. Her work has been published by companies like Fulgencio Pimentel, Mamut Cómic, and Biscoto, and some of her books have been translated in other countries like Italy, China, and France.
She has also collaborated with clients such as Milan Press, Revista Kiwi, and Wrap Magazine. María Ramos loves the art of storytelling through drawings and aims to create books that are fun, exciting, and at the same time thought-provoking.
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