Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate
Narrative and Visual Language
A course by Meike Schneider , Character Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Narrative and Visual Language
Overview
“First of all, you will learn how to increase the reader's excitement through good imagery and interesting storytelling. ”
In this video lesson Meike Schneider addresses the topic: Narrative and Visual Language, which is part of the Domestika online course: Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate. Learn the fundamentals of illustrating children's books and create a coherent concept for layout, drawing style, and character design.
Partial transcription of the video
“narrative and imagery In this lesson we speak about the narrative style and imagery in children's books. I'll show you how to get tension in your pages. First you need to figure out the conflict in your story. Here you see Little Red Riding Hood who has to overcome her fear of running to her grandmother in the dark. It all encourages character development in the history. The kids want to see the character grows from his experiences and gets better at what he does. It can be little things like that the child must learn to brush their teeth or that it might be afraid of spiders. All of these ...”
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Course summary for: Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate
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Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration
Meike Schneider
A course by Meike Schneider
Meike Schneider is a German illustrator and character designer who regularly works with animation studios, publishing houses, and advertising agencies. She knew she wanted to work in the creative industry from a young age, which led her to study 3D animation and VFX art. Her animation style is inspired by children's shows, Disney movies, and Nintendo games from the '90s. Illustrating children's books is her artistic outlet and allows her to feed her passion for creating characters and stories.
Her portfolio is a showcase for a wide range of projects, from editorial illustrations, character design, and visual development to product design and packaging, 3D scenery and character modeling, and look-development. Her client list includes big names like Adobe, Lidl, Dell, My Best Book, and 3dtotal. In addition to her freelance career, she has experience in education, working as the head of the 3D modeling and character design department and teaching classes at PIXL VISN and SCHOOL OF GAMES in Cologne.
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