From Autobiography to Illustrated Story
Cover, text writing and closing
A course by Paloma Valdivia , Illustrator, Writer and Editor
About the video: Cover, text writing and closing
Overview
“In this lesson, we will edit the text to obtain a final version, and write it in the illustration. The idea will be to complement and enhance the narrative of the images. Also, I will show you how I make the cover of a book and give you some tips to create a closing sentence. ”
In this video lesson Paloma Valdivia addresses the topic: Cover, text writing and closing, which is part of the Domestika online course: From Autobiography to Illustrated Story. Learn how to create a picture book starting from a personal story and an object from your childhood.
Partial transcription of the video
“S for Salinger Cover, text writing and closure In this lesson we are going to review our text, We are going to write it again and then clean it. Once we have the text ready, we will draw the cover. Finally, we will ask the question that closes our story. Now I have more elements to be able to review my text, because I have the text that we took from the video and the drawings made. Then I will be able to generate a game between the two. Maybe there will be things that will be said in the text because they are not in the image, and there will be things that need not be said in the text. It's...”
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Course summary for: From Autobiography to Illustrated Story
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Ink Illustration, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Writing
Paloma Valdivia
A course by Paloma Valdivia
With a design degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a postgraduate degree in illustration from the Escola d'Art i Disseny de Barcelona, illustrator, writer, and publisher Paloma Valdivia has taken the children and young adult’s books world by storm.
With work translated into more than twenty languages, she has been recognized internationally with the New Horizon Award of the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Italy), the BIB PLAQUÉ of the Bratislava Biennial of Illustration (Slovakia), the Municipal Literature Award of Santiago (Chile), The Best Book Awards granted by UNESCO and the German Graphic Arts Foundation, and the Little Bird Award, among others.
Besides having her own publishing house dedicated exclusively to children’s books, Ediciones Liebre, Paloma has collaborated with publishers and entities including Amanuta (Chile), Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico), Kalandraka (Spain), La Joie de Lire (Switzerland), Fatatrac, (Italy), and Enchanted Lion Books (USA).
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