Illustration for Picture Books: Combine Digital and Analog Techniques

Illustration for Picture Books: Combine Digital and Analog Techniques

“We have reached the end of this adventure. I hope you fill the walls of your studio with brush stains, waxes or whatever you have on hand. Try other supplies like coffee, stamps, cutout paper. Research and experiment, mix and match. Now we are going to review the phases of the final project. This will serve as an inspiration and reference to share your project with the Domestika community. Choose a topic and look for references If you do not have a clear idea of how to start the project because you do not know what book you would like to do or how to approach it, I encourage you to dive into folk tales, in the lost world of Homer's orality, in traditional songs and poetry ... I invite you to navigate the seas of great moments in history, of lost stories, of great adventures. Look for texts that are free of rights, with which you can work freely. There are many wonderful stories to discover.

Sketch Now make expressive sketches. They are sketches to focus on your drawings, on how you want to make your images. Try to make free and open drawings of elements and characters in the story that you are going to illustrate. Then get down to business with the concept sketches. Play with the essentials you have used, combining previous sketches, creating images that communicate. Schematic drawing Develop a schematic drawing with the proportions that the final image of your cover will have. This will be of great help to you later. Analog spots Now generate the texture spots that will be part of your illustration, as we saw in Unit 4. Digitization and composition Digitize the analog shapes. Next, in Photoshop, combine elements and apply everything we saw in Unit 5 of the course to bring your final illustration to life by composing the image. When you're done, review the lesson in which I explained how to prepare your illustration for print. Now share your final project with all of us by clicking on "Create your project". Remember to share both the final result of your illustration and the steps that have led you to it. It would be great if you showed a picture of each step and added a brief explanation about what you have done in each one. So I can give you feedback. I also want to invite you to actively participate in the forum. There we can comment on your work and feel free to comment on other people's projects if you think you can contribute ideas. Ideas are always welcome! And be patient with the answers! I usually have several projects to attend to, in addition to my teaching activities at universities, festivals and illustration schools. I appreciate your understanding. Thank you! Illustration finished prepare it for printing.”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project So far my course has come. I hope you enjoyed it and that you learned a lot of new things. Now I will review the steps that I have followed to be able to do the cover of my book. Once I have chosen the topic, the first thing I have done is look for references, read texts and pull the thread to find all the information that I do not know about the project. Then I started to make the first sketches. Those first sketches remember that they are thought out sketches to focus on the drawing, in how I want to represent my images. Later, in a second part, I have continued making sketc...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Picture Books: Combine Digital and Analog Techniques

• Level: Beginner
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• 832 students
• 5 units
• 16 lessons (2h 54m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Picturebook, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting