Narrative Illustration: Create a Children's Picturebook
Assemble and retouch in Photoshop 2
A course by Pablo Bernasconi , Illustrator and Writer
Joined July 2021
About the video: Assemble and retouch in Photoshop 2
Overview
“Now I continue with the digital assembly of the double page 14-15, always taking into account the decisions I made in the sketches.”
In this video lesson Pablo Bernasconi addresses the topic: Assemble and retouch in Photoshop 2, 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 We will begin the digital assembly of the double page 14-15, always taking into account the original plane in our map of notebooks, the sketches, to respect those ideas that we outlined at the beginning, but now having the flexibility to include the three or four elements that this page contains. That is, to Lucia, the character that we already assembled analogically outside, with textures, the moons that we also cut from the textures What could we make from the books? the fonts which we also cut from the same book, we salvage and scatter like this to give ...”
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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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