Visual Narrative for Picturebooks: Create a Playful World
The Visual Ellipsis
A course by Renata Galindo , Author and Illustrator
About the video: The Visual Ellipsis
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn some tools for building a visual narrative. I will use examples from picture books to show how you can create your own visual language through framing and angles.”
In this video lesson Renata Galindo addresses the topic: The Visual Ellipsis, 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
“The Visual Ellipsis In this lesson, we will learn about the visual ellipsis. You'll learn about the visual tools you can use to create your narrative. Let's take a look. FRAMING In this lesson, we will take a look at some of the tools for building a visual narrative. I will use examples from different books to show you how you can create a visual language through framing and angles. When you start sketching, imagine you're holding a camera. Use it to frame the scenes like a cinematographer does in film to emphasize certain messages. Here are some ways to frame your scenes. Shot size has to ...”
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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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