Visual Narrative for Picturebooks: Create a Playful World
Making a Mini Dummy
A course by Renata Galindo , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Making a Mini Dummy
Overview
“You will create a mini dummy to experience the flow of the story in its final format, and review your design in a more general way.”
In this video lesson Renata Galindo addresses the topic: Making a Mini Dummy, 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
“Making a Mini Dummy The best way to test your storyboard is making a mini dummy book. This is a way to experience the book as you intend it. The only way to know how the rhythm of your story works is turning the pages. You can only do that with actual pages. Let's build our mini dummy. First, I'll print a copy of my storyboard in a size that works for me. I'll have all of these cut out and ready for folding. I will fold each spread in half and then glue them together to build my dummy book. I've only printed one side of the paper so that this side is free for gluing. I'll take my double-sid...”
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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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