Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks

Overview

“The booklet has been extremely helpful to me in every book I've created, it seems simple, but it keeps you connected to your creativity as you begin to structure your book. In this lesson I will teach you how to create it and how to develop a storyboard that allows you to organize the ideas in sequence. ”

In this video lesson Gerald Espinoza addresses the topic: The storyboard and the booklet, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks. Develop a storyboard and explore different and unconventional techniques to tell stories full of emotion.

Partial transcription of the video

“The storyboard and the booklet In this lesson I will teach you how to make a storyboard and then transfer it to your notebook. We already have a structure for our story, We already have a visual narration that we are going to place here. So we need to split that story in as many double pages as possible and as our book has. In my case I have 14 to 16 double pages because it is the standard for children's books. I'm going to start on the first frame by drawing my cover. You don't have to draw perfect for a storyboard. You can simply make some dolls. You can make a very simple outline. This f...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (32)
• 597 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 54m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Sketching, Storyboard