Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
Using Colour
A course by Melissa Castrillón , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Using Colour
Overview
“Colour is a key component of the picture book. As well as adding to the aesthetics of the book, it can also help drive the story and its mood. Here I will show you the power of colour, the freedom of limiting your colours and how you can create your own limited colour palette to best suit your story. ”
In this video lesson Melissa Castrillón addresses the topic: Using Colour, 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
“Using Colour In this lesson I'll be focusing on colour, how colour can be used to show the shifting moods throughout a story, provide clues to the emotions of characters and highlight objects within the book. I'm going to take you through how I use basic colour theory to elevate the stories that I create, as well as creating colour palettes for my books. First, I'm going to show you two books that use colour in very different ways. "Whatever Happened to my Sister?" by Simona Ciraolo is about the transient phase between adulthood and childhood. It is a story about two sisters and how the you...”
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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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