Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Overview

“Here I will teach you how to put a title on the cover, I will talk a little about the world of typography and I will give you some tips to keep in mind. ”

In this video lesson Manuela Montoya Escobar addresses the topic: Title and choice of font 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

“Title and Font Selection In this lesson, I'll explain how to add a title to your cover. We’ll talk a bit about fonts and about the text as an image. Let's go. Now that I have my file with the color editing done, what I’ll do is start creating the title for the text we're working with. First, I’ll determine the area, which we already know will be here. I’ll start by drawing a text box. This will be my text box. This is the area that will contain the title. I want you to note that the text box itself creates a kind of margin here and here. I should keep that in mind because I need to give the...”

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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