Writing and Illustration of a Non-Fiction Picturebook

Overview

“Visual metaphors are great devices to transmit knowledge playfully. In this lesson, I’ll give you some tips on how to create them. ”

In this video lesson Catarina Sobral addresses the topic: Denotation and Connotation, 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

“Denotation and Connotation In this lesson, I'll be doing a practical exercise on visual metaphors and explaining to you the concepts of denotation and connotation. Interestingly, the word illustration comes from the word illumination because the decorations on the medieval illuminated manuscripts lit up the texts. That's why they're called illuminations. Nowadays, the illustration is not merely a literal translation of the text, text and image work together to create a multimodal message. They expand and enhance the meaning of each other by sharing the same space, the page. The illustration...”

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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