Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Overview

“In this lesson, I will teach you how to work on your portfolio and give you different tips to continue creating. ”

In this video lesson Manuela Montoya Escobar addresses the topic: Tips for showing your work, 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

“Tips for Showing your Work In this lesson, I’ll give you some tips on how to show your work. This is a challenge I did that came up on Instagram. It’s a challenge called Inktober created by Jake Parker and the goal is to work with ink to improve your technique. I made my own guidelines because that was where I felt most comfortable, and, based on that, I created characters and created a story for each one. What’s good about this? I’m practicing my creativity, my technique, and I can start to see progress in each illustration I make, both creatively and technically. Then, maybe a year or two...”

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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