Children's Picturebooks with Digital Techniques
Search for composition
A course by Guilherme Karsten , Writer and Illustrator
About the video: Search for composition
Overview
“In this class I will show you how I decide the path I will follow through my research for composition. ”
In this video lesson Guilherme Karsten addresses the topic: Search for composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Picturebooks with Digital Techniques. Discover the techniques and digital tools to create unique visual narratives by composing an illustrated album that evokes the curiosity of young readers.
Partial transcription of the video
“Search for composition I'll show you how I decide my way through the search for composition. Let's search? Made the choice of our text and decided the scenes that we will illustrate, we move on to this moment of inspiration, of image research, that can contribute aesthetically to our project. It's one of the moments I appreciate the most because countless ideas spring up in the head, in addition to those we had when we decided to create the three scenes. I'll show you how I normally do it. I used to download images from Google and save in a folder on my computer for each project, for each b...”
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Course summary for: Children's Picturebooks with Digital Techniques
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration

Guilherme Karsten
A course by Guilherme Karsten
Writer and illustrator Guilherme Karsten produces all his pieces digitally from start to finish. For an illustration to be compelling, he believes it must contain a creatively bold message that ignites something deep within in the reader.
He received his degree in Publicity and Advertising with a major in Graphic Design and has published five works and illustrated over thirty books for other authors. He was awarded the esteemed Golden Plaque (Slovakia) and the Golden Pinwheel (China) and is also a two-time finalist for the Jabuti Award, the most prestigious Brazilian editorial prize there is.
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