Digital Illustration for Children’s Stories

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Course overview

Provider
Domestika
Course type
Paid course
Level
Beginner
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
3 hours
Lessons
16 lessons
Certificate
Available on completion
Course author
Teresa Martínez

Ever wanted to weave stories through your illustrations? Teresa Martínez, a children's illustrator with over 15 years of experience, has had her work published by international publishers such as SM, Editorial Castillo, and Macmillan, and truly believes that the illustrator is the second narrator in any story. Her work involves retelling a story, complementing the text, and enriching it through the imagery.

In this course, she teaches you how to illustrate a children's story digitally, creating beautifully compelling images for children and young people, using the tools available in Photoshop.

Description

Learn to tell stories with illustrations created in Photoshop

Start by getting to know Teresa Martínez's work and hear about the illustrators and artists that inspire her daily.

Then, she explains three different ways to reinterpret a text with images and talks about the basic principles of composition.

Next, learn how to make a storyboard to help you sell your work better and present your project to the publisher. To do this, choose one of the scenes from the story and start creating your sketch, then study the values.

Teresa explains the basic principles of color theory, which helps you to choose just the right color scheme of your illustration. Once you've decided, get to work on your illustration in Photoshop.

Work the light and shadows, adding textures and paying special attention to some elements that can help balance the composition.

Finally, Teresa gives you some tips to present your work to a publisher.

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