Writing and Illustrating a Picture Book Course

Name: Writing and Illustrating a Picture Book Course
Start: 2024-10-13T17:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-13T19:00:00+10:00
Location: Malvern School of Art, Malvern VIC

Schedule

Sun Oct 13 2024 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

Malvern School of Art, Malvern VIC | Melbourne, VI

In this 10-week course for adults, you will be taken on a creative journey on how to write, illustrate and self published your very own picture book for children. The immersive course will cover all areas used in the contemporary children's picture book industry including: How to gather ideas, develop your story through structuring and pacing, character design and storyboarding. Throughout the course, our facilitator will guide you through step-by-step illustration techniques that are catered to individual style and preferred medium of each student.
The course is suitable for adults with all skill levels, even beginners.
Topics to be covered in this course:
Creative writing
Setting up compositions
Lighting and shadows
Story structure, pacing and rhythm
Experimentation of various art mediums
Camera angles
Character Design
Character's expression and movement
How to develop simple and effective ideas for your story
Self-publishing process on how to turn your complete project into a physical printed book
Our course is kept exclusively to 5 attendees in order to allow maximum one on one time, as well as cater to the individual style of each student.
The course is mentored and facilitated by award winning published children's book author and illustrator, Tull Suwannakit, whose books have been published in Australia,The UK and The US, as well as being translated into numerous languages throughout the world.
Visit:www.TullSuwannakit.net to see Tull's published books and illustrations.
Class schedule:
Sunday 13 October - Sunday 15 December
Class time:
600pm-800pm