Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Overview

“Exploration is vital in creative processes. In this lesson I will start to create the cover and I will show you some tips that I take into account to work on the composition. ”

In this video lesson Manuela Montoya Escobar addresses the topic: First Cover Sketches, 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

“Initial Cover Sketches In this lesson, we’ll complete our first sketches of the cover. Now that we're starting to do sketches, I’d advise you to use paper that isn’t too expensive or very important to you because when we work with paper that we care about, we’ll want the sketch to look beautiful and that hinders our creativity and flow of ideas. This is a messy, experimental process and I want you to do it without worrying, to let your imagination soar. That’s why we use paper that allows us to get our hands dirty and get down to it. One of the first steps is to choose the cover format. For...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Children's Book Covers

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (131)
• 2946 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