Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
How and where to present your works?
A course by Natalia Colombo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: How and where to present your works?
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you how to present your book projects both to publishers and at fairs. I will also tell you about some contests and tell you what is important to keep in mind. Finally, I will give you some tips to send your work by mail.”
In this video lesson Natalia Colombo addresses the topic: How and where to present your works?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books. Free your imagination and learn to create unique characters that bring illustrated stories to life using experimental techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“How and where to present your works? Now that we have finished our page in Photoshop and put the finishing touches what we have to start thinking about is how we are going to show it. From here, I propose that you can finish this book, continue writing a text and generate a personal project. Then you can show this project at international book fairs or you can also show it to publishers without having to go to a fair. But the experience of being able to attend these events is very interesting. I will tell you about my experience at the fair. I went twice. The first time I was impressed beca...”
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Course summary for: Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Design, Drawing, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Natalia Colombo
A course by Natalia Colombo
Natalia Colombo is an illustrator and a graphic designer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires. She's worked in advertising agencies and her own graphic design studio. After gaining experience illustrating textbooks, she published her first picturebook. She now has more than 60 books published, and with each new book, a new challenge.
Throughout her career, she's had the opportunity to collaborate with publishers in France, China, Italy, Spain, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, and more. She has also received multiple awards for her work, including the International Compostela Prize for Picture Books and the Iberoamérica Ilustra award. In addition to illustrating books, she's collaborated on animation projects for two Argentine TV channels: Encuentro and Pakapaka.
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