Artistic Illustration for Children’s Books
A course by Natalia Gurovich , Illustrator
Discover mixed techniques to create artistic illustrations for children’s books by using exploration to fuel your creative engine
Discover mixed techniques to create artistic illustrations for children’s books by using exploration to fuel your creative engine
Want to explore the playful side of illustration? Begin this journey alongside illustrator and painter Natalia Gurovich, who's released more than 25 children's books with publishing houses such as Grupo SM, Planeta, Pearson, and more. In this online course, explore the use of mixed techniques to create stunning illustrations for young readers.
Learn to play with lines and patches of color as well as collage, seeing how to give your experiments meaning and use them in the creation of characters, objects, and situations. By the end, you'll have created an artistic illustration based on a scene from a well-known text.
What will you learn in this online course?
14 lessons & 22 downloads
- 100% positive reviews (12)
- 565 students
- 14 lessons (2h 39m)
- 22 additional resources (7 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Recommended software for this course
Adobe PhotoshopWhat is this course's project?
Use a classic tale to create an illustrated scene with different plastic art techniques and then digitize it in Photoshop.
Who is this online course for?
Anyone who wants to explore their artistic side by creating children's content.
Requirements and materials
No previous experience is needed, just a few materials:
⦁ Colored and graphite (H, 2B, 4B) pencils
⦁ Acrylics and liquid watercolors
⦁ A glue stick
⦁ Paintbrushes
⦁ Foam
⦁ Scissors
⦁ Paper
⦁ A computer installed with Photoshop
⦁ A scanner
Reviews
A course by Natalia Gurovich
Illustrator and painter Natalia Gurovich studied graphic design in Chile before moving to Mexico to specialize in illustration. She has extensive experience illustrating books for children and young adults and her pieces are a showcase of her different origins and influences, where composition and color are the main pillars. She bases her work on the search for creative freedom, the aesthetic value of plastic arts, and the playfulness of the process.
She has released more than 25 books for children with both Mexican and international publishing houses including Grupo SM, Planeta, Pearson, Castillo, Porrúa, and Panamericana, to name just a few. She has also been recognized in a variety of competitions like the Catálogo Iberoamericano and the Rassegna Internazionale I colori del Sacro in Italy.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Influences
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U2
Getting Lost in Order to Find Yourself
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Children’s Books, Illustrators, Artists and Techniques
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Choosing the Story to Illustrate: Peter and the Wolf
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Ideas, Scenes and Characters
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The Characters: Color and Characteristics
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U3
Discovering Oneself to Choose
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Playing with the Materials
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The Characters: From the General to the Particular 1
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The Characters: From the General to the Particular 2
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The Final Sketch 1
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The Final Sketch 2
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U4
I Got Lost, I Found Myself, I Made a Decision, I'll Finish It
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Preparing the Digital Collage
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Digitally Processing the Collage
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Care and Recommendations: Digital and Analog
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FP
Final project
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Artistic Illustration for Children’s Books
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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Learn at your own pace
Enjoy learning from home without a set schedule and with an easy-to-follow method. You set your own pace.
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Learn from the best professionals
Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.
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Certificates
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Get front-row seats
Videos of the highest quality, so you don't miss a single detail. With unlimited access, you can watch them as many times as you need to perfect your technique.
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Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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Connect with a global creative community
The community is home to millions of people from around the world who are curious and passionate about exploring and expressing their creativity.
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FAQs
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All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
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mikcsesz
Excelente curso! me encanto y aprendí mucho sobre esta técnica.
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perla_vera
Estoy disfrutando mucho del curso.Muy entretenida y enriquecedora la lbúsqueda y creación de personajes. Agradecida con la profesora
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It's a kind of a course which is not only inspiring but also entertaining
valerie_wunsche
El cursillo está muy bien. Pude encontrar nuevas técnicas, formas de mejorar mi proceso de creatividad, me ayudó a ser más flexible y libre al crear mis ideas. También la parte de pasar lo análogo a la digitalización está muy completa. Los tips para guardar tus dibujos , en que hay que fijarse al enmarcar una obra y más consejos. Sumamente práctico. Recomiendo este cursillo al 100%.
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vmarinipa
El curso me encantó! con muchas ideas para hacer volar la creatividad y también con tips prácticos de como llevar tu obra a la venta en el formato que necesites ya sea análogo o digital. Muchas gracias!
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