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Designing Covers for Children's Books

Tyrus GoshayLessons: 7Length: 49 minutes
Adobe PhotoshopDigital PaintingGraphic DesignText Effects
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1.1 Introduction

Welcome to Designing Covers for Children's Books. In this course, we will be discussing the steps any artist or designer can take to create an engaging and noticeable cover. We will discuss composition, the Golden Mean, how to create quick thumbnails, and the power of negative space vs. positive space. I will also be briefly covering how to use your Adobe CC library to help easily store and use previous artwork to assist in our design. We will pretend that we are designing for the client, and I will follow the steps that I would normally use when freelancing. I will be sharing my insider tips throughout the course.

1.Introduction
2 lessons, 05:14

1.1
Introduction
01:18

1.2
Tools and Workstation
03:56

2.Pre-Production
4 lessons, 42:33

2.1
Looking at Composition
06:07

2.2
Creating a Good Composition
13:25

2.3
Font Treatment for Our Cover Design
12:33

2.4
Using Our Library to Compose
10:28

3.Conclusion
1 lesson, 01:33

3.1
Final Thoughts
01:33

Tyrus Goshay
Tyrus Goshay
Tyrus Goshay is a Digital Creative and Instructor with over 14 years of design experience, including product development, product design and illustration for marketing and games. He has also worked for companies by the likes of Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney and many others as a designer and as an Illustrator.