Writing and Illustration of a Non-Fiction Picturebook

Overview

“Universality, permeability, and affectivity are always good ingredients when creating content for children. In this lesson, I’ll explain how to incorporate these concepts into our work.”

In this video lesson Catarina Sobral addresses the topic: Creating Children’s Content, which is part of the Domestika online course: Writing and Illustration of a Non-Fiction Picturebook. Combine storytelling and illustration techniques to craft a captivating children’s book inspired by the real world.

Partial transcription of the video

“Creating Children's Content In this lesson, I'll teach you some of my key concepts to create children's content. I have been talking about some of the devices that make more exciting teaching subjects to young audiences, but I do believe that the quality and the power to engage the audience, be it nonfiction or fiction, in any format, a song, a play, a book, a magazine, improves if it follows three key concepts: universality, permeability, and affectivity. The three are connected. Although I didn't use them consciously in the beginning of my career, I have been noticing that I use them ofte...”

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Course summary for: Writing and Illustration of a Non-Fiction Picturebook

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (88)
• 2586 students
• 5 units
• 22 lessons (4h 20m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration, Writing

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Creative Writing, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Picturebook, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Writing