Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration
Brainstorming the Story
A course by Evan Lorenzen , Multidisciplinary Artist
About the video: Brainstorming the Story
Overview
“What do you want your tiny book to be about? Let’s see what ideas you can consider when you’re coming up with a story or concept for your book.”
In this video lesson Evan Lorenzen addresses the topic: Brainstorming the Story, which is part of the Domestika online course: Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration. Learn how to tell your story intricately by making a teeny tiny book from scratch and filling it with precise, micro-scale illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Brainstorming the Story Now we know how our book structure and layout will look. In this lesson, we'll brainstorm ideas for the content of your book. The first thing to consider is if you want your book to have a narrative or just to be illustrative. There are options where you can be narrative without necessarily needing any text. This book is a great example of how you can have a narrative without needing any text in your book at all. Sometimes images are more powerful than words and this can help you out. Consider whether or not text will benefit your book. This is another example of h...”
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Course summary for: Make a Tiny Book: Miniature Bookbinding and Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, DIY, Traditional illustration
Evan Lorenzen
A course by Evan Lorenzen
Evan Lorenzen, better known as Art and Such Evan, is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in micro illustrations. While studying animation in college, he became interested in bookmaking and took a course to learn the process. Several years later, he decided to try it on a small scale and has been passionate about the medium of miniature ever since, as it challenges both his physical and creative limits.
Throughout his career, Evan has had the opportunity to collaborate with organizations like the Miniature Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, Cat Art Show L.A., and hundreds of individual collectors. His work has been featured in exhibits across the US and abroad, including the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and the Nucleus Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
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