Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
Arranging the Final Composition and Colour
A course by Melissa Castrillón , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Arranging the Final Composition and Colour
Overview
“I will start off by showing you how to design a composition, taking into consideration everything I have explained so far. I will also show you the colour palette I have chosen and why I chose it.”
In this video lesson Melissa Castrillón addresses the topic: Arranging the Final Composition and 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
“Arranging the Final Composition and Colour In this lesson, from the snippet of text that I created from the story structure, I'm now going to show you how I've sketched out in my sketchbook some ideas for the final illustration using various different compositional techniques that I discussed in Unit 2. In my sketchbook, I have sketched out and played with various compositional techniques such as spots here. This is a large spot playing with negative space and the flow of the shapes of both the bird and the foliage that it's sitting on. I am always thinking about where to place the text, su...”
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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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