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Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate

Book Planning 1

A course by Meike Schneider , Character Designer and Illustrator

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99% positive reviews (190)

10,635 students

Audio: German

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About the video: Book Planning 1

Overview

“Here are a few tips for planning the entire book. I will also show you how you can create your story similar to a storyboard in order to adjust things if necessary, save time and be able to show the customer the first drafts.”

In this video lesson Meike Schneider addresses the topic: Book Planning 1, 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

“Plan the book This lesson is about page planning. I'll show you how to plan your pages and you can also create transitions and also I show you how I made my page plan. Like movies, books have a page plan, or storyboard. In the picture on the right you can already see what it looks like. They are very rough sketches from the sides. You just do it roughly because things can be changed afterwards and be adjusted. You have to figure out which scenes you want to illustrate in the first place and maybe you want to take another scene after all, while you planned the others. So you can exchange and...”

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Course summary for: Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (190)
10635 students
5 units
20 lessons (3h 56m)
12 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Procreate
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration

Meike Schneider

A course by Meike Schneider

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Character Designer and Illustrator

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.