Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Overview

“Here I will tell you about the means and techniques that I use to illustrate. I will show you how I combine them and how I take advantage of their properties to achieve the tone in which I will tell the story.”

In this video lesson Manuela Montoya Escobar addresses the topic: Color tests 1, 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

“Color Tests In this lesson, I’ll explain how to do color tests for your cover. Since I like to work with different materials and I liked to mix techniques, for the color tests I’ve brought watercolor paints, colored pencils, acrylic gouache, and these are water-soluble crayons. I have my paintbrushes here. I’ll start with watercolor. Watercolor is generally worked from lighter to darker because you’re using transparency. So, I’ll start painting my background first for my first test with this brush, which has a water tank and, as I press on it, it releases moisture. I’ll use a lot of water t...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Children's Book Covers

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (127)
• 2876 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