Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks

Overview

“One of the keys to knowing that your book is on the right track is to take a spread, turn it into a sketch, and then an illustration. From here you will come to see your work ready. ”

In this video lesson Gerald Espinoza addresses the topic: Double Page 1, 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 double page In this lesson we are going to paint our double page spread. I have already transferred my sketch to paper. I have used a watercolor paper to have better strength, so that the color can adhere much better, and I have enlarged my illustration. I enlarged it a bit because I need certain spaces to create certain details. I generally like to work almost double than the original print of the illustration will be. Many illustrators work in different formats. You will find that there are very large formats because they need a lot of detail and others like to work small details to s...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks

• Level: Beginner
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• 597 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 54m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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