Imaginary Worlds Illustrated with Ink and Watercolor
Community
A course by Flor Kaneshiro , Illustrator
About the video: Community
Overview
“Think about the community your character inhabits, also take some time to visualize what the culture that surrounds him is like. Here I will give you some tips with which you can help you define all this.”
In this video lesson Flor Kaneshiro addresses the topic: Community, which is part of the Domestika online course: Imaginary Worlds Illustrated with Ink and Watercolor. Tell an original story by learning the techniques to illustrate characters and the world that surrounds them.
Partial transcription of the video
“Community In this lesson, we’ll work on designing the community. The fourth skin: friends, family, the other inhabitants of the village where our character lives. To do that, we’ll start with a simple exercise to play with those characters’ body structures. We’ll draw three geometric shapes. A circle, a square, a triangle. Based on these shapes, we’ll build a character's body. For example, let’s think about what this shape suggests to us. It’s a rounder body. We could place the head outside of the circle or within the circle. We’ll keep playing with and thinking about the proportions. I’m g...”
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Course summary for: Imaginary Worlds Illustrated with Ink and Watercolor
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Character Design, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Manga, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Flor Kaneshiro
A course by Flor Kaneshiro
Flor Kaneshiro is an Argentine illustrator with a degree in fine arts from the National University of La Plata in Argentina, specialized in traditional Japanese-style illustration. Her work focuses on book illustration and video projects.
In addition to her studies in Argentina, she obtained a scholarship at the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts in Japan, where she has also exhibited her art. In her work, she depicts Japanese culture, nature, people, stories, and animals using watercolor as the main technique.
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