Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions
Binding
A course by Noemí Villamuza , Illustrator
About the video: Binding
Overview
“Next, we are going to assemble a little book so that the project has a neat appearance. For this I will teach you how to make a Japanese artisan binding.”
In this video lesson Noemí Villamuza addresses the topic: Binding, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions. Learn to compose compelling children’s illustrations using graphite, watercolor, and collage .
Partial transcription of the video
“Binding In this lesson I will teach you a simple technique to bind your illustrations. Here we already have the printed illustrations, cut and adapted to the format that we will use to bind. Here I have the illustration already cut and ready to go on the cover of the notebook. In this case I have prepared a cardboard already perforated, stiff enough to work well in notebook. You can use something similar or also recycle covers of an agenda if they are stiff enough to be book covers. I also have colored sheets here. Black will be the support on which the illustrations are pasted and the lila...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Noemí Villamuza
A course by Noemí Villamuza
Illustrator Noemí Villamuza was born in Palencia, Spain, and has been living in Barcelona since 1998, the same year she published her first children's book. She studied fine arts with a major in graphic design, but she found her true calling in illustration. She has released numerous children's and young adult books with publishers like Kalandraka, Kókinos, Media Vaca, and Nórdica, and has created illustrations for graphic novels as well as press and advertising content.
She was a finalist for Spain's National Illustration Award in 2002 and won a Junceda award for illustration in 2007, as well as an award for the IBBY poster for the 2010 International Children's Book Day. When she's not creating, she shares her knowledge by teaching illustration classes at institutions across Barcelona, like the Escola de la Dona, Escola Bau, and Escola Massana, and by running workshops at schools, libraries, and cultural centers.
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