Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
Developing It Further
A course by Melissa Castrillón , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Developing It Further
Overview
“Where to go now? In this lesson, I will show you ways to develop your project further into a whole picture book. ”
In this video lesson Melissa Castrillón addresses the topic: Developing It Further, 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
“Developing It Further Creating a book can be daunting, so, in this lesson, I'm going to be showing you how you can break it down into smaller bits to make it more manageable. So, here is a workflow. I find these really useful when I'm starting a project to break it down into smaller, more manageable chunks, starting with a text, running all the way through to creating a final dummy book. The first thing to do is to write the text. Some of you will have a small bit of text, so now's the time to write the whole thing. The first thing to do really is to think about the beginning, the middle an...”
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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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