Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
Traits of my character
A course by Estelí Meza , Illustrator
About the video: Traits of my character
Overview
“The face is a fundamental element, because through it a bond will be created with the person who sees the image and will give more strength to the story you want to tell. In this lesson you will focus on your character's face. You will do a series of exercises to find their features.”
In this video lesson Estelí Meza addresses the topic: Traits of my 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 Character Traits In this lesson we will focus on the character's traits. The face is a very important element because the reader, when he sees our character, connects with him, and I think it's an element that we have to focus a lot on so that the character has a lot of strength and a great contact with the reader. It is the next exercise we will work with the open notebook and the idea is to focus on the face. We will divide our open notebook into four columns, it can be mentally or we can make the columns, and the idea is to trace in the first column the faces of our character and ...”
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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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