Writing and Illustration of a Non-Fiction Picturebook

Combine storytelling and illustration techniques to craft a captivating children’s book inspired by the real world

• Introduction
• Key Concepts
• Warm-up
• Hands-on
• What’s Next?
• Final project

Through non-fiction children’s books, you can poetically translate the real world using illustrations and words. Author, illustrator, and director Catarina Sobral writes award-winning picturebooks that have been exhibited around the world and published in 16 different languages.

In this course, she teaches you how to write and illustrate a story rooted in real events that appeals to a broad audience. Develop the storytelling and drawing skills needed to create the first and last spread of a captivating picturebook. Become a visual storyteller and craft a non-fiction picturebook for young readers.

This is Catarina’s second course with Domestika. In her first, Experimental Techniques for Picturebooks, she explores how to use tempo, tension, and plot to create visual narratives from scratch.

• About Me
• Influences
• Nonfiction Picture Books
• Creating Children’s Content
• Denotation and Connotation
• Materials
• Color Exercise
• Illustration Technique: Analogue 1
• Illustration Technique: Analogue 2
• Illustration Technique: Digital 1
• Illustration Technique: Digital 2
• Nonfictional Text
• Choosing a Theme
• Creative Writing for Nonfiction 1
• Creative Writing for Nonfiction 2
• Sketch the First Spread 1
• Sketch the First Spread 2
• Sketch the Glossary
• Final Art of the First Spread
• Final Art of the Glossary
• Digital Post-production
• Other Formats
• Writing and Illustration of a Non-Fiction Picturebook