Visual Narrative for Picturebooks: Create a Playful World
Defining Your Character
A course by Renata Galindo , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Defining Your Character
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn how to define your character. This will be the first step towards creating a story. Then I will show you different ways to build your character’s personality, and how to use your character as a linchpin for your story. ”
In this video lesson Renata Galindo addresses the topic: Defining Your Character, 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
“Defining Your Character In this lesson, we will talk about a fundamental part of a picture book, which is the character. Let me show you. THE UGLY DUCKLING For this course, I will be using the story of "The Ugly Duckling" as a base to explore different approaches for building a story. The key points of the story are the following. A little duckling is born, who looks different from the other little ducklings in the nest. His brothers and sisters, other animals in the farm and even his mother make fun of him for being different or ugly. Tired of being mistreated, the duckling runs away. The ...”
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Course summary for: Visual Narrative for Picturebooks: Create a Playful World
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Category
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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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