Picturebook Creation

Overview

“Done, we reached the final stretch, in this lesson, I will show you how to make the model of the book: - How to paste the pages - How to assemble the cover - How to glue the pages to the cover In additional resources, I will leave in a pdf, the step-by-step guide on how to build your model, and a file for you to export your images in InDesign with bleed. I advise you to leave the sketches in black and white and only the final illustrations in color. ”

In this video lesson Flavia Z Drago addresses the topic: The model of our book, which is part of the Domestika online course: Picturebook Creation. Use illustration as a narrative base for your book and create a model ready to present to an editor.

Partial transcription of the video

“The mock-up We've come to the last part of our project. Here, we have finished our story and our definitive illustrations. Now we'll put it all together to make our dummy book. First, we have to print all of the pages in our dummy book with bleeds and crop marks. This is very important as it will facilitate the assembly process afterwards. If you don't know how to export a PDF with crop marks and bleeds, you can find some instructions in Additional resources. When putting together your mock-up it's important to have at least five finished illustrations in color as this will give the editor ...”

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Course summary for: Picturebook Creation

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (811)
• 14989 students
• 5 units
• 19 lessons (2h 20m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration