Online Portfolio for Children’s Book Illustrators
Characters, Setting, and Storytelling 1
A course by Marissa Valdez , Children's Book Author and Illustrator
Joined February 2021
Joined February 2021
About the video: Characters, Setting, and Storytelling 1
Overview
“Together we’ll be creating a character, setting and story that we can use to create several starting illustrations for your portfolio in the next unit. ”
In this video lesson Marissa Valdez addresses the topic: Characters, Setting, and Storytelling 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Online Portfolio for Children’s Book Illustrators. Learn the fundamentals of children’s book illustration to create a playful portfolio ready to share with editors and art directors.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Characters, Setting and Storytelling In the last lesson, we went over the elements that we'll need for our portfolio. In this lesson, we will create a list of stories, characters, and settings that we'll use for the rest of the course. Here I have my handy-dandy notebook that we'll use to create our list today. We'll just go ahead and get started. I like using this notebook to make my list because if I have computer paper or something larger, I tend to go all over the place, which is great for sketching, but not great for list-making. I like something a bit smaller. You may be asking me, ...”
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Course summary for: Online Portfolio for Children’s Book Illustrators
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Editorial Design, Management & Productivity, Narrative, Picturebook, Portfolio Development, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Marissa Valdez
A course by Marissa Valdez
Marissa is a children’s book author and illustrator based in Houston, Texas. Drawing and illustration have always been present in Marissa’s life, which led her to study animation at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. After her studies, she went on to work as a preschool teacher, an art teacher, and a graphic designer. She later discovered children's illustration and decided to pursue her newfound passion as a career
She has since worked with publishers such as Hachette, Penguin Random House, and Macmillan. Marissa illustrated books like Ambitious Girl, which was on The New York Times bestseller list, as well as the books Hedgehogs Don’t Wear Underwear and Esme’s Birthday Conga Line.
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