Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook
Narrative scenes
A course by Pablo Bernasconi , Illustrator and Writer
Joined July 2021
About the video: Narrative scenes
Overview
“In this lesson, we are going to define the scenes and metaphors of each page in relation to the text. We will learn to avoid redundancy and thus expand the reader's experience.”
In this video lesson Pablo Bernasconi addresses the topic: Narrative scenes, 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
“narrative scenes We are now going to prepare our narrative scenes. For that we are going to begin to develop ideas or possibilities within each of the double pages that we have already minimally outlined. I am going to choose now the double page 14-15 that talks about Lucia's nights. Page 14-15 had text that read: "Lucía listens to them night after night, waiting on each page let sleep come and take her for a walk until the next day". So far we have the line that occupies that page. So at this point the metaphorical vehicle quite possibly it is the same moon accompanied by Lucia, for our ma...”
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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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