Tutor: Korky Paul
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This 3-day, onsite workshop is suitable for students with a passion for drawing and want to take it to the next level of ilustration.
Workshop Details
Korky Paul is an international multi-million selling children’s book illustrator. On this course he will teach you how to design and illustrate a children’s picture book and prepare a presentation package to show prospective publishers or to use to self-publish. The course will be a mixture of an editorial-style meeting and practical work in the class, combined with lots of homework.
You must have a passion and a willingness to draw. Please note that Korky Paul will not be teaching drawing – students should have some inherent or intrinsic skill. The gift as some may call it!
Please bring an appropriate story or poem written by you, a friend or a published author, to be illustrated as a 32-page picture book (max word count approx. 800). Please bring as a Word document. The tutor will have a selection of stories which writers have granted him permission to use for teaching purposes. You can choose from these should you not have a story.
Skills/Techniques Covered
Please Bring With You
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
Click here for Timings & Refreshments
This 3-day, onsite workshop is suitable for students with a passion for drawing and want to take it to the next level of ilustration.
Workshop Details
Korky Paul is an international multi-million selling children’s book illustrator. On this course he will teach you how to design and illustrate a children’s picture book and prepare a presentation package to show prospective publishers or to use to self-publish. The course will be a mixture of an editorial-style meeting and practical work in the class, combined with lots of homework.
You must have a passion and a willingness to draw. Please note that Korky Paul will not be teaching drawing – students should have some inherent or intrinsic skill. The gift as some may call it!
Please bring an appropriate story or poem written by you, a friend or a published author, to be illustrated as a 32-page picture book (max word count approx. 800). Please bring as a Word document. The tutor will have a selection of stories which writers have granted him permission to use for teaching purposes. You can choose from these should you not have a story.
Skills/Techniques Covered
- Learning how to divide/split the manuscript into 12 spreads (24 pages)
- Researching and preparing preliminary character sketches
- Researching and preparing preliminary background sketches
- Story boarding the story over 12 spreads
- Preparing pencil rough for one double page spread (spread 1, pp6-7)
- Preparing finished art for one double page spread (spread 1, pp6-7)
- Learning about layout, design, typography and composition
- Learning how analyse picture books for layout, design, typography and composition
- Preparing a presentation package for a potential publisher
Please Bring With You
- A more detailed list of things to bring will be sent to you once the workshop has enough people enrolled. You will be notified 3 weeks before the due date if the class is to run.
- As a keen drawer, you probably have most of the items already. They include:
- Examples of your work
- Drawing tools
- Colouring materials
- Papers
- Other assorted materials, such as masking fluid and masking tape