Visual Narrative for Picturebooks: Create a Playful World
Planning the Story
A course by Renata Galindo , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Planning the Story
Overview
“I will show you different ways to tell your story through images, how to decide when to use text, and how to make a storyboard. ”
In this video lesson Renata Galindo addresses the topic: Planning the Story, 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
“Planning the Story In this lesson, we will talk about the sequential image and how you can use it to plan your story visually. Let's get to it. THE SEQUENTIAL IMAGE The sequential image is a series of images connected to each other by a narrative thread. For images to be connected, we usually need two elements: the actor and the stage. In picture books, the actor is our character and the stage is the space where the character is placed. The relationship between your character and its stage creates the sense of time and movement. One thing to remember is the actor doesn't have to be fully vi...”
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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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