Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Overview

“I will teach you how to pass the miniature sketch to life size and then I will explain how to transfer it to the paper on which I will work the final art. ”

In this video lesson Manuela Montoya Escobar addresses the topic: Transfer techniques, 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

“Transfer Techniques In this lesson I'll explain how I go from the miniature I made to its full size and how I transfer the sketch to the final paper that we’ll do the cover on. What I’ve done here, first of all, is decide on the final size of my cover. We’ll work at 100% scale. If you work with the miniatures that we did before, later you’ll have to stretch the image and that could cause problems; it could get pixelated, et cetera. Here we’ll try to work with at least 100% of the size. I decided that my cover size will be 17.5 cm wide by 24 cm high. You’ll see I’ve drawn a margin here. Anyt...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Children's Book Covers

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (128)
• 2898 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