Illustrator Tatiana Oliva Morales

Cover designer Tatiana Oliva Morales

© Tatiana Oliva Morales, 2020

© Tatiana Oliva Morales, illustrations, 2020

© Tatiana Oliva Morales, cover design, 2020

ISBN 978-5-4498-0268-2

Created with Ridero smart publishing system

Annotation

The tutorial consists of 2 parts. The first part sets forth a theory with detailed explanations of design principles, examples and exercises to study various techniques.

The second part, the workshop, consists of 28 designs for processing and recreating. The manual is designed to study the principles of book cover design «from scratch». Partly the attention is paid to illustration.

After completing the full course of this tutorial, you will be able to make any design you are interested in: the cover of a children’s book, a collection of poems, fiction, educational and other literature.

From the author

This tutorial can be used as a self-learning manual. If you need additional consultations or classes, you may contact me. Consultations / classes in person and via Skype are possible.

Individual orders for cover design and book illustration are accepted.

My contact details

Tel 8 925 184 37 07

Skype: oliva-morales

E-mail: oliva-morales@mail.ru

Website:

https://lronline.ru

Respectfully,

Tatiana Oliva Morales

Introduction

It so happened that I became a writer. I write different things – textbooks, prose, sometimes poetry, and, of course, books for children. And, as you know, this is a special kind of literature that requires high-quality content, including a bright and beautiful cover, as well as illustrations.

While I was writing only textbooks, I did not think about any special cover design. Sure, it was important for me. I wanted the cover to be attractive, recognizable, especially since, as a rule, I never write one single textbook, but do them in series.

So, when I realized that I had accumulated material in my computer from which I could get about a hundred educational children’s books, the issue of their covers design and illustrations came up very sharply.

I did not want to entrust both of those processes to anyone else. I perfectly understood that no one except me knew and felt the content of those books better, and therefore he would not complete the design of the covers and illustrations the way I could make.

Despite the fact that I have an art education, and I still draw when I find inspiration, I do it exclusively on canvas or an album sheet – I don’t know how to draw on a computer.

Therefore, I was faced with the task of either learning how to draw on a computer or understanding how the designers work in graphic editors.

I began to google, and after some time I googled the information about the graphic editor on the Canva website. The reviews