Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook
Layout and conceptual party
A course by Pablo Bernasconi , Illustrator and Writer
Joined July 2021
About the video: Layout and conceptual party
Overview
“The idea is to plant our book in a 24-page layout, through the design of narrative sketches. In this lesson we will define the course and the general conceptual game, learning to justify each decision.”
In this video lesson Pablo Bernasconi addresses the topic: Layout and conceptual party, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook. Learn how to create a picturebook using mixed media and digital collage techniques, from the story layout to the final images.
Partial transcription of the video
“Layout and conceptual party We are now going to talk about the conceptual game and the layout. The conceptual party is the place where our ideas take coherence, where everything comes together and stands by itself. It is the machinery that motorizes precisely all the winks and metaphors that go behind this point. every concept match In my experience it has three main stages. The first is the harvest of ideas, which is what we talked about in the previous lesson. The second is what I call the click or fine tuning or finding. That is, those ideas that shine above the others. For example, in t...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration

Pablo Bernasconi
A course by Pablo Bernasconi
Pablo Bernasconi is a graphic designer, illustrator, and author from Bariloche, Argentina, known for his original creations full of humor and depth, and his magical visual metaphors. His work—with more than 30 published books—has been translated into 12 languages.
Many of his illustrated metaphors have appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, The Telegraph, Rolling Stone, and The Times. He has received significant awards throughout his career, such as Los Destacados de ALIJA and the SND gold medal. Additionally, he was a finalist at the Hans Christian Andersen Awards (IBBY) in 2018 and a candidate for the ALMA (Astrid Lindgren Award) in 2021 and 2022.
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