Diseño de álbumes ilustrados de las especies endémicas del Parque Nacional Yasuní.

Abstract

It was possible to design a collection of four picture books to encourage five years- old children from Francisco de Orellana Canton to appreciate the endemic species of the Yasuni National Park. The picture books method was designed thanks to the result of the compilation of other existing albums. It was necessary to make several analyzes for the selection of the twenty endemic species: ten of flora and ten of fauna from the Yasuni National Park. Subsequently, the creative process of each picture book was done, each of them is made up of 36 pages in full color, which has five characters of the selected species accompanied by a main character boy or girl who has descriptive and exaggerated features. The illustrations are designed with primary and secondary colors, basic and simple shapes, and the applied typography is suitable according to the target audience. On each page of the picture book there are the compositional elements such as: module, texture, flat, visual techniques, page type, page style, album type, type of grid, type and illustration technique. Regarding the narration of the stories, an appropriate and structured language was used, based on the Storyboard technique. The stories were developed taking into account the direct factors that affect the different species, such as the indiscriminate hunting of animals, oil exploitation and pollution. The validation of the Yasuni collection was performed with experts in the field, obtaining as a result of the evaluation a parameter of excellent in each of them. Therefore, it is concluded that this method of designing “picture books” applied in this project was correct, consequently, it is recommended to apply this method in the design of this type of picture books.