Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
Influences
A course by Melissa Castrillón , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I will now show you the artists and makers I most adore and the ones who fanned my passion for colour, composition and design, as well as other disciplines apart from illustration which have inspired my work. ”
In this video lesson Melissa Castrillón addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition. Develop eye-catching illustrations for picturebooks by using harmonious structures and a consistent color palette while experimenting with textures and media.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences The love I have for what I do and how I do it largely comes from the inspiration I get from other artists and makers who went before me. I'm constantly inspired by how they create their work, whether it's through the colour that they use or the composition, or even the way that they create their stories. I'm also inspired by other disciplines that aren't just illustration. In this lesson I'm going to talk about the artists and makers that inspire me the most and have informed my work. The first person I'm going to talk about is Tove Jansson. She's a Swedish-speaking, Norwegian-bo...”
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Course summary for: Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Color Theory, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Melissa Castrillón
A course by Melissa Castrillón
Melissa Castrillón is a freelance illustrator and designer with a mix of English and Colombian roots. Growing up in a creative family, she knew from the age of five that she wanted to draw for a living. While studying an MA in children’s book illustration at the Anglia Ruskin University, she discovered screen printing, and with it, a new way to approach her artwork, focusing on color and composition.
Melissa has illustrated over 25 book covers and more than ten picturebooks, collaborating with publishers like Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Bloomsbury, and Scholastic. She has also written three of her own, Mighty Min, The Balcony and Can You Keep a Secret?, which have been translated into more than 20 languages. In 2019, she was awarded the Gold medal by the Society of Illustrators in New York for The Balcony. That same year, she was asked to redesign the covers for Philip Pullman’s popular trilogy His Dark Materials.
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