Chidren's Book Illustration Class

This class will teach students the basics of narrative illustration. Students will each choose a well-known simple short story, which will be broken down into a short list of plot points. An illustration will be created for each plot point. The foundations of narrative art will be stressed, including planning the illustrations with thumbnail sketches and roughs, effectively communicating emotion and action, contrasting tonal values to  create a readable image, and rendering finished full-color illustrations.