Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Overview

“In this lesson I will share with you some of my creative processes to find stories and with them, create stories.”

In this video lesson Manuela Montoya Escobar addresses the topic: Brief and creativity, 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

“Brief and Creativity In this lesson, I’ll explain how to create a brief. The first thing I do, if I don't have a brief from the client, is create a list of words. Since my main character will be an animal, one of the categories will be animals. The other categories that I chose are objects and, lastly, places because my story needs a character, a place for the action to occur, and I want to anchor it to an object. But you can use any other category, even emotions, an event, dramatic or otherwise, a memory of yours. You can base it on a photograph, something that inspires a feeling. The firs...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Children's Book Covers

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (131)
• 2987 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