Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
Playing with the character
A course by Estelí Meza , Illustrator
About the video: Playing with the character
Overview
“You already chose a character from your combinations that you made in the last lesson. Now is the time to get to know it differently. You will work it graphically. You will do different exercises that will allow you to get to know him better physically. ”
In this video lesson Estelí Meza addresses the topic: Playing with the character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books. Learn the process of telling a story through a sequence of illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“Unit 2 Playing with the character You already chose a character from past exercises, and now it's time to work more deeply with that character. I chose this one, which is the guy, my torso and the legs of the punk singer. Now we will work in an exercise that is to do the body in different ways. The idea is to make the body in a triangular shape, rectangular and circular. Let's start with the triangular body of our character. We will only focus on the body. The idea of this exercise is to do other ways that we might not normally do and that we can find some interesting results. That is the i...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Paper Craft, Traditional illustration
Estelí Meza
A course by Estelí Meza
Estelí Meza is a Mexican illustrator specialized in children’s books, who also works with magazines and creates book covers for imprints in Mexico, Spain, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.
Since 2007 she has dedicated 100% of her professional life to illustration. She is the author of three illustrated books: Lino Felino, Angustia, and El Príncipe Valiente tiene miedo. Her main clients include editorials such as Scholastic, Anaya, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Kalimat, Penguin Random House, among others, and she has worked with other clients such as Google.
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