Sketchbook Techniques for Children's Illustration
Creating a Mood Board
A course by Ema Malyauka , Illustrator
About the video: Creating a Mood Board
Overview
“The final step to conclude your preparation process is gathering inspiration. In this lesson, I will explain the importance of collecting research before starting a future book, how to achieve this, and where to look. You will learn what a mood board is and how to create one. Finally, I will cover a few rules on how to use references. ”
In this video lesson Ema Malyauka addresses the topic: Creating a Mood Board, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Techniques for Children's Illustration. Explore materials, colors, and drawing techniques to bring to life fairy-tale stories for children's books in your sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Creating a Mood Board In this lesson, we will start to create our mood board. We will collect our own visual library. Perhaps this is my favorite stage of working on a picture book. Usually, novice artists, as soon as they choose their fairy tale, they start drawing illustrations right away. I did it too, don't worry. After they finish the book, they see that something's not working because the illustrations are scattered and not convincing. Why does that happen? It's because artists miss some very important steps, and one of them is creating a mood board. A mood board is a collection of ...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Techniques for Children's Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Gouache Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Sketchbook
Ema Malyauka
A course by Ema Malyauka
Ema Malyauka is an illustrator from Belarus, currently based in The Netherlands. She fell in love with books from a young age, spending hours in book stores with her mother, and later turned her passion into a career. She studied at an art school as a child and went on to specialize in teaching and critiquing art. After graduating, she felt something was missing though, and decided to realize her dream of becoming an illustrator and start sharing her creations on Instagram.
Ema has since worked on illustrations for encyclopedias, postcards, book covers, and more. She has collaborated with Adobe, as well as smaller companies and charities, and has had her work published in China and South Korea. She also came third in an Adobe drawing contest. Ema has built a creative community called Sketch & Breakfast that brings artists together to sketch on a weekly basis, and she also sells her prints on Etsy.
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