Illustrated Picturebooks: Create Poetic Vignette Imagery

Learn to tell non-linear, visual stories by crafting compelling images that resonate with people of all ages using both analog and digital tools

• Introduction
• The Vignette Picture Book
• Creating a Concept Picture Book for Adults
• From Analog to Digital
• Planning for the Future
• Final project

Illustrated concept books are a great way to explore complex themes like memory or grief with more nuance than text alone. Through her books and illustrations, author, illustrator, and graphic designer Cecilia Ruiz aims to make intimidating subjects approachable for people of all ages. She has written and illustrated three books of her own and collaborated with clients including Google, Penguin Random House, and The New York Times.

In this course, she teaches you how to come up with a theme and structure for a concept book of your own. Create your first illustrated vignette in the medium of your choice and make a plan to develop it into a completed book. Tell compelling stories through bite-sized illustrated moments.

• About Me
• Influences
• Concept Picture Books for Adults
• Substance and Form
• The Vignette: Relationship Between Image and Text
• Disecting an Image
• Brainstorming
• Settling on a Theme and Structure
• Creating the Master Vignette
• Printmaking
• Cutting the Shapes Out in Photoshop
• Color the Images
• Combining Image and Text
• What to Do Next
• Tips and Tricks for Being a Freelance Illustrator
• Illustrated Picturebooks: Create Poetic Vignette Imagery