Digital Illustration for Children’s Stories (Spanish, Multisub)

Learn to tell stories with illustrations created in Photoshop
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.

Who is this online course for?
Illustrators, designers, and anyone interested in delving into the world of digital illustration and learning to enrich children’s texts with images.

Requirements and materials
You need basic knowledge of drawing and Photoshop to take this course.
As for materials, you need paper and a pencil for sketching, a computer with Photoshop, and a tablet to work freehand.

What will you learn in this online course?
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.

What is this course’s project?
Using Photoshop as the main tool, create an illustration based on a text to serve as the cover of a story. Work on a storyboard to present your project to a publisher.

Who is this online course for?
Illustrators, designers, and anyone interested in delving into the world of digital illustration and learning to enrich children’s texts with images.

Requirements and materials
You need basic knowledge of drawing and Photoshop to take this course.
As for materials, you need paper and a pencil for sketching, a computer with Photoshop, and a tablet to work freehand.