Online Portfolio for Children’s Book Illustrators
Characters, Setting, and Storytelling 2
A course by Marissa Valdez , Children's Book Author and Illustrator
Joined February 2021
Joined February 2021
About the video: Characters, Setting, and Storytelling 2
Overview
“I will explain to you how to think out of the box with character designs. You will see how I keep writing down everything until I came up with the idea I want to keep working. ”
In this video lesson Marissa Valdez addresses the topic: Characters, Setting, and Storytelling 2, 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
“ Character, Settings and Storytelling Now we can start thinking about where to put the character. The entire time we do this, we want to be thinking about the story. The way she looks should influence the story. The setting should influence the story, because picture books, especially, are only 32 to 40 pages, so you want to make sure that everything you put in that book is important to the overall story of the picture book. Settings. Where to put the character? If you have multiple characters, think about places where there are multiple characters like a school, at the local pool, on a sp...”
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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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