Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers

Overview

“Now we are going to play a bit, although our technique will be in digital, you will see how to work the color and composition first using cardboard and scissors.”

In this video lesson maria_ramos addresses the topic: Collage with cardboard, 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

“Collage with cardboard In this lesson I'll look closer at my final page and use a collage with cardboard. I'll do a step prior to my final page and I'll use cardboard and cut them with scissors to explain composition and layout. Also about color, which is very important. In the storyboard we drew what would be on this page, and we saw shapes and objects that will appear. But in these sketches we don't see color, or how one color works beside another. So I'll use this analogical collage to explain the importance of composition. But my project will eventually be a digital collage. But this wo...”

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Course summary for: Creating Picturebooks for Young Readers

• Level: Beginner
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• 1261 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 25m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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