Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook
Assemble and retouch in Photoshop 1
A course by Pablo Bernasconi , Illustrator and Writer
Joined July 2021
Joined July 2021
About the video: Assemble and retouch in Photoshop 1
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to work on assembling the collage from Photoshop. I will start by composing the illustration of the fairy and then move on to working on its background.”
In this video lesson Pablo Bernasconi addresses the topic: Assemble and retouch in Photoshop 1, 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
“Assemble and retouch in Photoshop In this lesson we'll jump right into digital compositing in Photoshop, but first we are going to recap a point that I had not been able to resolve regarding one of the characters and a conceptual iconic element which was very important to me and still hadn't decided how to solve it. The element was the wings. I needed an object, some kind of inclusion iconographic or symbolic to add conceptual value to this character and consequently to that double page. It was difficult and what I did was directly kick it forward. Sometimes it happens that some of the elem...”
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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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