Artistic Drawing and Narrative Techniques for Picturebooks

Overview

“A book layout allows you to analyze the format, check that your visual storytelling works, and anticipate things like dies, fonts, or special inserts. In this lesson I will also talk about what to do next with your book. ”

In this video lesson Gerald Espinoza addresses the topic: The mock-up, 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 mockup In this lesson I will teach you how to assemble your model. Since we have the storyboard, we have the booklet, the sketches and the double page made, we can make our model. I have worked the 21 x 21 format to form a square book that, when opened, is 42 cm. I have used this format because it is the most used in children's books, but you can use any format, an elongated format, a more notebook-like format, and you can experiment a bit with different formats depending on the project you want to do. I have already scanned the sketches and then I have worked them in Photoshop just to ...”

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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