Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook

Overview

“Now we are going to illustrate each of the characters from the elements and techniques that we decided to use. It is the moment to sharpen the perception, to tune in with what is happening outside the program. There is no coincidence, but attention and findings. We will try to provide originality to each element: the greater degree of control we have, the more we will add to our style.”

In this video lesson Pablo Bernasconi addresses the topic: Assembly and illustration of the characters, 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

“Assembly and illustration of the characters From now on what we have left, already with the cut elements and distributed as to begin to assemble, is to start playing, see how the limbs, bodies, each piece of texture that we had prepared. Let's start with page 14-15, which is the page where Lucía runs on the moons. The first thing we can do is locate Lucia. These are textures that I had already prepared before and I was cutting. What we're going to do now is play directly with this. We can generate several layers, for example, to talk about hair, such a thing. We are adding and this already ...”

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Course summary for: Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 50m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration