Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration

Overview

“Here I'll discuss how you can use the story of your final project to create a picture book project and send it to editorials, contests, and agencies to be considered for publishing. ”

In this video lesson Juanita Londoño Gaviria addresses the topic: Making a Children’s Book, which is part of the Domestika online course: Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration. Learn how to illustrate a magical scene for a children’s book by exploring colors and textures with Procreate or Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“Making a Children's Book My focus for making illustrations is creating stories that can live in a children's book. Now I will teach you how you can take your illustration and develop it into a book project. Let's begin. MAKING A CHILDREN'S BOOK Sometimes stories are first written, like "Little Red Riding Hood", by Charles Perrault. I'm amazed how many illustrated versions exist out of this one text. Sometimes stories are first drawn. Like this illustration can turn into a book, you can create a children's book using the story you developed for this course. With your first piece, you already...”

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Course summary for: Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (83)
• 2647 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (4h 7m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration