Visual Narrative for Picturebooks: Create a Playful World
What Is a Picture Book?
A course by Renata Galindo , Author and Illustrator
About the video: What Is a Picture Book?
Overview
“I want to begin by talking about picture books, and the different ways in which you can use words and pictures to tell a story. ”
In this video lesson Renata Galindo addresses the topic: What Is a Picture Book?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Narrative for Picturebooks: Create a Playful World. Learn to build a digital illustrated story with the three-act structure and assemble your first picturebook.
Partial transcription of the video
“What Is A Picture Book? Now that you know a bit more about me and what inspires me, I would like to talk about some basic concepts in picture books. Let me show you WHAT IS A PICTURE BOOK? What is a picture book? A picture book is a book in which both words and images are essential to the narrative. There are fiction and nonfiction picture books. In this course, we will focus on fiction, but the same principles apply to nonfiction. Picture books have the following characteristics. They are short, usually between 32 and 48 pages long. This means we have to tell a relatively straightforward s...”
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Course summary for: Visual Narrative for Picturebooks: Create a Playful World
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Renata Galindo
A course by Renata Galindo
Since a young girl, Renata has been drawing the characters and scenes of her favorite books. When it was time to choose a career path, she studied design and visual communication, where she focused on illustration and visual narrative, before going to the UK to study an MA in children’s book illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. Soon after, she published her first picturebook “The Cherry Thief”, followed by her final project from her MA “My New Mom & Me” which is translated into seven languages.
After her Master’s degree, Renata returned to Mexico City, where she worked as an artist and layout designer for Diecinueve36 for four years, before becoming an independent author and illustrator. Renata has worked with several publishers for children’s books in Mexico and the US, including Scholastic, Macmillan, and Penguin Random House.
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