Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration
The Precious Thumbnails 1
A course by user1471081 surname1471081 , Illustrator
Joined August 2019
Learn to use the power of storytelling to illustrate children's books in your own style
Joined August 2019
About the video: The Precious Thumbnails 1
Overview
“Now it's time to put into practice all our acquired knowledge about composition and finally be able to visualize our book as a whole. The thumbnail is still a very primitive rough draft of our composition idea, but it is extremely essential to take us through more elaborate drafts and see if our story works together. It is important to remember that it is very different to create just an isolated illustration than a set that forms a book. The book needs to have a rhythm, a coherence, and the images need to work in sequence. When we are satisfied with this step, we move on to Photoshop, where we will fine-tune our sketches and make everything more elaborate and detailed. ”
In this video lesson user1471081 surname1471081 addresses the topic: The Precious Thumbnails 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration. Learn to use the power of storytelling to illustrate children's books in your own style.
Partial transcription of the video
“the precious thumbnails Now, we are going to talk about the so-called thumbnails. You must be used to what a thumbnail is. When you go to YouTube, there's that bunch of squares there with a thumbnail of the videos. It's the same with book thumbnails. Only each square of this it has a well-drafted composition, very simple, but you can already see how they work in sequence. It is the first time that we will have this glimpse of the book as a whole, as if it were an ultrasound of your unborn child. Now, I'm going to teach you how we assemble these squares in Photoshop. So how do we assemble th...”
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Course summary for: Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
A course by user1471081 surname1471081
Daniel Wu is a Brazilian illustrator focused on the publishing market. He has been passionate about the storytelling power of images since he was young. After graduating in social communication, he worked in several areas before making his dream of working in illustration a reality.
His expressive and humorous style has seen him collaborate with major publishers and publications such as FTD, Abril, and Storytime Magazine, as well as international brands including Faber-Castell, Avon, and PepsiCo. In 2021, he published his own version of the classic Little Red Riding Hood with Bamboozinho.
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