Artistic Illustration for Children’s Books
Preparing the Digital Collage
A course by Natalia Gurovich , Illustrator
About the video: Preparing the Digital Collage
Overview
“From the sketch made, we will digitize and clean the parts of the illustration before assembling the final image in Photoshop.”
In this video lesson Natalia Gurovich addresses the topic: Preparing the Digital Collage, 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
“Prepare the digital collage In this lesson we will clean up and finish assembling the final image in Photoshop. In this part of the process we have to think how to convert from an analog image to a digital image and, how to digitize it, how to scan it is very important because it will depend on how the final product turns out, which is surely what you will deliver to your client. There are several types of scanners. I recommend the ones called flat beds, like the one we have right here. It's a flatbed scanner and really isn't a big expense. You can invest in it, if you want to dedicate your...”
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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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