Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
Promotion
A course by Melissa Castrillón , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Promotion
Overview
“Promoting yourself and your book can feel daunting. Let me share a few tips on how to get a picture book and artwork out into the world. ”
In this video lesson Melissa Castrillón addresses the topic: Promotion, 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
“Promotion Promoting yourself and your book can seem daunting. In this lesson, I will provide you with tips of how you can get your artwork and your book out into the world. In front of me is a dummy book. A dummy book is a handmade book, which is used to be taken out to show to publishers to try and get their attention and hopefully publish it. It is there to give the idea of what your book could potentially look like if it was made into the real thing. There are many ways of making a dummy book. Some are easier, some are harder. But the main thing to remember is to make sure that the pages...”
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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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