Experimental Techniques for Picturebooks
Storyboard 2
A course by Catarina Sobral , Author, Illustrator, and Director
About the video: Storyboard 2
Overview
“The storyboard is not finished yet. There are still some pages we need to fill out.”
In this video lesson Catarina Sobral addresses the topic: Storyboard 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Techniques for Picturebooks. Tell an original story using tempo, tension, and plot to create a wordless visual narrative from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Storyboard In this fifth page I'm going to draw another type of layout. I'm thinking that I could do something similar to this, like a mixture between two single pages and a double page. I'm going to use the fold or the spine of the book as a temporal ellipsis, and I'm going to draw the acrobat in the middle flying while on one side of the paper we are in the morning still, and on the other side, at night already, with the circus having another performance. I'm going to draw a funambulist. So there's only audience in half of the page. And because this is early morning, I'm also going to do ...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Techniques for Picturebooks
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Catarina Sobral
A course by Catarina Sobral
Catarina Sobral is a Portuguese illustrator, author, and director of animated films. Before launching her career as a freelance illustrator, she studied graphic design and illustration, developing a unique style blending her eye-catching illustrations and strong narrative voice.
Catarina’s work can be seen regularly in illustrations for press, album covers, posters, and of course, picturebooks. Her award-winning picturebooks have been published in 16 different languages and exhibited around the world, gaining recognition from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Portuguese National Illustration Award, the Portuguese Authors’ Society, the White Ravens catalog, and 3x3 magazine.
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