Book illustration: The first page
In three weeks, you will go from the text to the finished book project. Take Little Red Riding Hood, a familiar story that allows you to focus on visual solutions.
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BeginnerAbout the Course
Book illustration is not about beautiful pictures. It's about the ability to tell a story visually: choosing the right moment, building a narrative rhythm, working with plans and space so that the reader does not notice the artist's efforts — only feels the story.
In three weeks, you will go from the text to the finished book project. Take Little Red Riding Hood, a familiar story that allows you to focus on visual solutions. You will analyze the structure of the book, create two characters, draw a storyboard of 6 scenes and bring one illustration to the final.
By the end of the course, you will not have a set of individual drawings, but a complete book project ready for display.
What You Will Learn
How the Learning Works
Watch video lessons at your own pace
Complete assignments and reinforce your skills
Gain knowledge and build your portfolio
Who Is This Course For
The course is designed for illustrators who want to master book illustration and understand how visual storytelling works. It is suitable for those who draw, but want to learn how to build a story through images — and get a complete project for a portfolio.
What Students Say
Anna Ivanova
Egorenkov Dmitry
Course Program
Theory- •Book structure: types of illustrations and place of text
- •The logic of splitting text into pages and spreads
- •Character through silhouette, proportions and facial expressions of characters
Practice- •Copy practice: we draw a Wolf in two versions based on animation references
- •2-3 design options for Little Red Riding Hood and a Wolf with their own character
- •The layout of the characters on the sheet (for advanced users, each character in the situation)
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