Illustration and Lettering: Create a Book Cover

Overview

“In this lesson, you will learn how to build a stock of images that will inspire you and serve as a reference for your creation. ”

In this video lesson Manon Bucciarelli addresses the topic: Iconographic research, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration and Lettering: Create a Book Cover. Learn to understand the needs of a publisher and create an original book cover that combines hand lettering and illustration in Photoshop and InDesign.

Partial transcription of the video

“Iconographic research In this lesson, we will build up a stock of images which will serve as a reference for the creation of our illustration. Thanks to the key words and concepts revealed by our note taking, we will be able to look for images which are a reference and which will inspire us. I'll show you a search I did on Pinterest, but I invite you to look in your environment lots of other pictures. The richer and more diverse your sources will be, the more personal your illustration will be. Do not hesitate to dig into magazines, at the museum, go to see many exhibitions, leaf through bo...”

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Course summary for: Illustration and Lettering: Create a Book Cover

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (18)
• 835 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 55m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography, Design, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Graphic Design, Hand Lettering, Lettering