Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Overview

“First I want to show you different references of children's book covers and how the different elements that compose it work with each other. ”

In this video lesson Manuela Montoya Escobar addresses the topic: Children's book cover, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Children's Book Covers . Create a fantasy universe with mixed techniques by developing your own cover, from the initial brief and character design to the final digital edit.

Partial transcription of the video

“Children’s Book Covers In this lesson, I’ll show you examples of children’s book covers. In this course, we’ll work on designing children’s book covers, from the characters to the general composition and the title design. Right now I’ll show you examples of different covers so you see what possibilities exist. We’ll start with this book called “The Liszts,” written by Kyo Maclear and illustrated by Júlia Sardà. This cover, as you can see is very geometrical. We have the centered title and then the authors’ names. You can see that the story’s characters are here, but we still don’t know what...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Children's Book Covers

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (131)
• 2998 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (3h 14m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Painting, Picturebook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting