Illustration for Picture Books: Combine Digital and Analog Techniques
Cover Layout
A course by Maguma , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Cover Layout
Overview
“In this lesson I will build a final sketch of the chosen idea with the same proportions that the final image of my cover will have. This sketch will serve as the basis for fitting the analog shapes that I will digitize later.”
In this video lesson Maguma addresses the topic: Cover Layout, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Picture Books: Combine Digital and Analog Techniques . Create the cover of an illustrated book using analog techniques like watercolors or India ink and Photoshop .
Partial transcription of the video
“Cover Layout Now that I am clear about what the drawing is, the idea that I am going to carry out, which is this, in this lesson I am going to scan the image to decide the proportions and dimensions that my image will have to later be able to make a schematic drawing that helps me to fit the stains. Let's see it. I have scanned the sketch of the option I have decided to work with. I will use this image to configure my final file, on which later I will work with the digital collage. I am going to create a new image. In principle, I have thought of an image that has a width 21 cm and a height...”
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Course summary for: Illustration for Picture Books: Combine Digital and Analog Techniques
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Picturebook, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Maguma
A course by Maguma
Maguma is an architect by trade with a passion for drawing. He began working in illustration by collaborating with El País newspaper where he was a regular contributor. Since then, his illustrations have been published by major media outlets including Courrier International, Forbes, and Yorokobu.
His books have also seen widespread distribution by publishers like Fondo de Cultura Económica, Editorial Milrazones, Editorial Limonero, A buen paso, Editorial Amanuta, Gallucci Editore, Boitempo, Tara Books, and Libros del Zorro Rojo.
Maguma's work has earned him a long list of awards including first prize at the 2019 Babalunga International Contest, promoted by the Babakamo festival, and the Latin American Illustration 7 Award. His picture book El sueño de Pandora also earned honorary mention at the 4th edition of the International Compostela Awards.
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