Illustration and Design of Children's Books

The montage

A course by Carlos Higuera , Designer, Illustrator, and Art Director

98% positive reviews (351)

6,055 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: The montage

Overview

“At this point your books should be anxious to make themselves known, but we can not send them naked as they came to the world. That's why we're going to do a montage first.”

In this video lesson Carlos Higuera addresses the topic: The montage, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration and Design of Children's Books. Learn professional techniques to create and edit your own ABC books.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we are going to talk about montage. We have one final detail left and it is preparing the files for presentation. At this point we are going to use a mock up and we will easily do from Photoshop. Let's see how to do it. Let's think that what we going to teach an editor is the only thing that will be seen of our work and it is important to have a good initial impact. Therefore it must be something of excellent quality. could make a prototype in the form of physical model and take some pictures but for practicality I recommend do a digital montage. For this we are going to need...”

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Course summary for: Illustration and Design of Children's Books

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (351)
6055 students
5 units
14 lessons (1h 36m)
5 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Narrative, Vector Illustration

Carlos Higuera

A course by Carlos Higuera

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Designer, Illustrator, and Art Director

Carlos Higuera is a graphic designer and illustrator. He studied children's illustration and creative processes at the Sótano Blanco art school in Buenos Aires, Argentina and worked as an art director for Leo Burnett and Sancho BBDO. Together with Azul Piñeiro, he currently directs the Kudasai Design Studio. He also coordinates talks and online illustration workshops and is committed to creating illustrated books and mobile applications for children. His work has been published and exhibited in countries such as Japan, Germany, Spain, France, the United States, Argentina, and Colombia.