Introduction to Picturebook Creation
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Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Lessons
- 28 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Ricard López Iglesias
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In contrast to a story, a picture book can fully narrate a story through images, with text that works more like an ally, to complement and integrate the illustrations. But what about all the other singularities that make up a picture book? Illustrator Ricard López explains them all at the start of the course and guides you through each step so that you carry out your picture book project as if it was commissioned by a publisher. Ricard (who also goes by Ricardilus) has worked for major clients like Penguin Random House, Planeta, TSL Jewellery (from Hong Kong), and the National Art Museum of Cataluña, in Barcelona, Spain, among others.
In this course, learn how to create your own book using analog and digital techniques on Photoshop. See the entire process to illustrate your story, learning about the script, characters, scenes, book cover, and more, and learn how to create your own watercolor, pencil, or other textured paintbrushes.
This is Ricard’s second course, in the first one Illustration Techniques with Digital Watercolor he shows you different illustration techniques to create unique digital watercolor portraits on Photoshop.
Description
Ricard López, also known as Ricardilus, starts by telling you how he started out in illustration professionally and shows you some of his projects and sources of inspiration. Then he shows you all the differences between a story and a picture book.
Learn how to create your own watercolor, gouache, or other textured paintbrushes you want on Photoshop and see how to work with them digitally to create your picture book.
See how to work on an editorial project professionally. First, by selecting a well-known story. Ricard gives you some tips and tricks to create your characters to start sketching your own and define your main character. Create the script for your book and work on the storyboard by sketching out the possible scenes and compositions of your story, while taking some important guidelines into account.
Ricard goes into the specifics of designing your book cover, analyze some good examples, and get his expert advice to create your own professional, eye-catching book cover.
Digitize your manual sketches and refine your line work on Photoshop. Learn how to add color to your work by creating a color palette and use the tools you created at the beginning of the course. Lastly, integrate text to your illustrations and add filters and textures to harmonize your work and give it an analog look and feel.
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