Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
How to Find a Story
A course by Melissa Castrillón , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: How to Find a Story
Overview
“Creating a story can be tricky, but fear not! In this lesson, I will show you ways you can brainstorm for the all-important story idea, from diving into your imagination, searching your everyday life or looking in those unexpected places for inspiration. I will also show you how using existing stories can be equally inspiring!”
In this video lesson Melissa Castrillón addresses the topic: How to Find a Story, 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
“Creating stories from scratch can be hard, and it definitely isn't my strong point. So in this lesson, I'm going to be showing you processes and methods I use to create my stories. At the beginning of the process of trying to find a story, I will start off by creating a mood board. So a mood board is really useful in order to find images that you really love, This can be either art, photography, It can be photographs from your childhood. and creating a mood board where you can really visualise and see all the things you love. and possibly all the things that you'd like to include in a story...”
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Course summary for: Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
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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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