Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
Building a puppet
A course by Estelí Meza , Illustrator
About the video: Building a puppet
Overview
“You will develop a puppet of your character on cardboard. You will choose her clothing and her color palette. This element will be used to draw positions. It's important to me to touch the character, because I feel like I know him better.”
In this video lesson Estelí Meza addresses the topic: Building a puppet, 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 Building a puppet In this lesson we will make a puppet of our character. The puppet for me is a very important element. I always have a puppet of the character of the project I'm doing, and this allows me to touch it, manipulate it, put it in different positions, and with that I can draw. I really like to manipulate the object. That helps me to be closer to history, to the project and everything that happens. We will work on a sheet of our notebook and what we will do is trace our character in parts. I recommend that you first divide your character head, trunk, arms, legs, and in thi...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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