Bubbles and The King Corona / EGHI COVID-19 Children’s eBook

A 40 pages Story / Coloring Book for children about the CoronaVirus and how to prevent it

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The inspiration came from creating a character for children easy to identify and imagine to explain the facts of the CoVid-19 outbreak.

It's a book divided in 5 modules:

  • Explanation of the Virus / Disease
  • Origins of the Virus
  • Ways of contagion
  • Safety Measures
  • Actitivy book

How to talk to children about a Virus: Mixing the concept of growing up, what children want to be, the importance of each professional carreer involved in the control of the outbreak: Scientist, Doctors, Teachers, Police Force, Veteriarians and Transportation Services.

i used regular hand drawing on paper for sketches and storyboards, then I started to illustrate them on the Ipad Pro with Procreate. After this process was completed, I finished all the ilustrations I corrected the colors and size on Photoshop, then created the book on Illustrator to add texts, icons and logos.

So I needed, pencils and paper, an Ipad Pro with Procreate App, and a PC with Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator.

I think the hardest part was to create a world easily understandable for kids about an Illness and all the world stress surrounded by it, trying to avoid complicated language, and supporting the communication via illustrations that represents each topic covered. So, if the child is still learning to read, the drawings can help to understand better the concept in a more easy way.

I'm proud of the result based on the short time given, and the difficulty to express the medical concept through illustrations. the humanization of the Virus and the Soap's Bubble as sentient beings.

Having Nephews myself at home during this Curfew Quarantine, I've learned their behaviors, their feelings, and the need to find answers to the imposed confinement, it's easier to find visual ways to explain what is happening around the world without causing stress or fear.

Bubbles and The King Corona, is not only a book. is a set of characters that can be applied to any kind of educational material about viruses and health programs for children. If the client need adaptations for other media, the illustrations are layered and can be separated for different applications: website, Social Media, etc.

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