Artistic Illustration for Children’s Books
Choosing the Story to Illustrate: Peter and the Wolf
A course by Natalia Gurovich , Illustrator
About the video: Choosing the Story to Illustrate: Peter and the Wolf
Overview
“Now I will tell you specifically about the story that I selected for the course project. I'll explain why I chose it and give you some facts about the time it was written.”
In this video lesson Natalia Gurovich addresses the topic: Choosing the Story to Illustrate: Peter and the Wolf, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Illustration for Children’s Books. Discover mixed techniques to create artistic illustrations for children’s books by using exploration to fuel your creative engine.
Partial transcription of the video
“Choose the story to illustrate: Pedrito and the wolf In this lesson I will tell you about the story I chose, the reason for my choice, and I will tell you some important facts of the time. It is important that we choose a story to do this illustration exercise. I chose the story "Pedrito and the Wolf". This book that I have had since my childhood is in large format, it has beautiful illustrations and it was made by Jiří Trnka, who is a Czech illustrator and a great multifaceted artist. Over time I discovered who had been a painter, a sculptor, had done stage design and inside the illustrati...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Illustration for Children’s Books
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Creativity, Drawing, Fine Arts, Fine-Art Photography, Narrative, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook
Natalia Gurovich
A course by Natalia Gurovich
Illustrator and painter Natalia Gurovich studied graphic design in Chile before moving to Mexico to specialize in illustration. She has extensive experience illustrating books for children and young adults and her pieces are a showcase of her different origins and influences, where composition and color are the main pillars. She bases her work on the search for creative freedom, the aesthetic value of plastic arts, and the playfulness of the process.
She has released more than 25 books for children with both Mexican and international publishing houses including Grupo SM, Planeta, Pearson, Castillo, Porrúa, and Panamericana, to name just a few. She has also been recognized in a variety of competitions like the Catálogo Iberoamericano and the Rassegna Internazionale I colori del Sacro in Italy.
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