Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration
Make It a Set!
A course by Kayla Stark , Illustrator
About the video: Make It a Set!
Overview
“Create more illustrations and sketches around your final piece to create a picture book dummy to pitch or just for practicing consistency. ”
In this video lesson Kayla Stark addresses the topic: Make It a Set! , which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration. Find your artistic style by exploring various combinations of materials, mediums, and techniques to create special illustrations for children.
Partial transcription of the video
“Make It a Set! Now that we've finished the final project, in this lesson, I'll show how to add illustrations to make a consistent set for a story pitch. Make it a Set (start a book dummy) Now, I'll talk about making a set of illustrations to start a book dummy. By now you probably have other visuals or story bits in your brain based on your character and the idea that you illustrated in your final project. Let's talk about taking those ideas and making a set of illustrations to pitch a story or picture book idea to an agent or a publisher. If you have a complete-ish story idea, write a manu...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Techniques through Children’s Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Kayla Stark
A course by Kayla Stark
Kayla Stark is an illustrator from Tennessee, USA, who has been in love with drawing for as long as she can remember. She believes in using your own individual perspective on the world and using it to create illustrations with a unique perspective. She studied Graphic Design at university and worked in a number of graphic design roles after graduating before pursuing her first love: illustration.
Since becoming a full-time freelance illustrator, working both digitally and traditionally across projects. Kayla has illustrated several books, including an interactive board book she wrote, Friends at the Firehouse, and her work has appeared in magazines and on posters. As well as this, Kayla sells her art prints online. Inspired by fellow illustrators, graphic designers and other creatives in her area, Kayla co-founded a working studio The Warren in Nashville, home to workshops, gallery shows, and other community events.
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