Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate
Book Planning 2
A course by Meike Schneider , Character Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Book Planning 2
Overview
“After your story's page plan is ready, you can hide the text and create the storyboards for each page. Here I show you how I do it.”
In this video lesson Meike Schneider addresses the topic: Book Planning 2, 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 In Unit 2, Lesson 1 you already had to create a story arc for your story and list the key points. You can use these to create your site plan. Do it like me, make you think what moments you want to show in the story and try to split them up. We can change that later. Just when we draw the storyboards in there, we notice that some scenes cannot be illustrated well. Then we can adjust that. As a starting point, I would recommend you to enter it like this. I have now hidden the text and will create the storyboards for the individual pages. We'll start with page 1 and I'll get clos...”
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Course summary for: Professional Children's Book Illustration with Procreate
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Areas
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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