Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook
Funds
A course by Pablo Bernasconi , Illustrator and Writer
Joined July 2021
About the video: Funds
Overview
“It is time to try different funds that enhance our image. This stage is always an experiment; We don't know how it ends or exactly the result of the aesthetic, but we must move forward and pay attention to what happens.”
In this video lesson Pablo Bernasconi addresses the topic: Funds, 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
“Funds I'm going to start preparing the funds to finish the illustrations of each double page. As we have already discussed before, In general, I use these cardboard ravioli boxes. they are super resistant they do not let it transfer from one side to another. Some backgrounds can be made directly with unliquefied paint. They are much denser and allow us a wilder continuous tone, more grunge. The important thing is that we have variety. This could be one. The next one could be another color. Then it is also important to understand that the tones of these funds, the saturations or the same col...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook
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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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