Illustration Track
Bring your favorite children’s books ideas to life with the Illustrating Children’s Books workshop with Manar Magdy. You will Get your hands on work intensively in this 8-weeks workshop to Develop your art from imagination, style, characters and colors to how to respond efectively to a specific brief, and discover more about illustration process stages and much more with application and getting constructive feedback. Ready?
Children Books Illustration By Our Students
Workshop Content
Lesson 1: Introduction to Children books illustration world
- The market for the children’s book industry and the most famous specialised publishing houses in the world and the Arab region
- The history of the children’s book industry
- The most famous children’s books and the most famous illustrators
- Storytellers and the age classification
- How to find References
- How to create your own distinctive style as an artis
Lesson 2: The Story – Reading and observation
- Receiving the story
- Cooperation between the writer and the illustrator
- The stages of directing the children’s story (Pipeline)
- Sizing and preparing the file
- Dividing the texts into scenes
Lesson 3: Character Design
- The main character (the hero of the story)
- The secondary character and what is the difference between him and the main character
- Facial expressions , body language and line of action
Lesson 4: Frame and composition
- Background sketches
- Composition
- Perspective
- Place of characters in design
- Text on design
Lesson 5: Frame and composition
- Background sketches
- Composition
- Perspective
- Place of characters in design
- Text on design
Lesson 6: Colors & Concept
- Choosing a colour palette
- Choosing brushes and textures
- Choosing costumes and patterns
- Contract and lighting
Lesson 7: Colors & Concept
- Choosing a colour palette
- Choosing brushes and textures
- Choosing costumes and patterns
- Contract and lighting
Lesson 8: Getting ready to print
- Final Touches
- Printing instruction
Course Requirements
- intermediate drawing skills
- Digital drawing
- Laptop and graphic tablet / Ipad
Level
Intermediate
Apps
- Certificate of completion after submitting your project
Instructor
Learning Outcome
Produce 2 spreads and the book cover for a choosen story as a final project, practising on it the full progress from receiving the text to be ready for publishing
Kholud Khaled
Kholoud khaled a children’s book illustrator and a visual storyteller with a BA from faculty of fine arts, with 12 years of experience, I have illustrated more than 30 children’s books . I am specialized in bright, engaging illustrations for picture books and early readers . My work has lots of action and i love to use dynamic compositions .
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