Illustration Techniques for Children’s Books
Favorite techniques
A course by Estelí Meza , Illustrator
About the video: Favorite techniques
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you three techniques you can apply to your story: colored pencils, acrylic markers, and watercolor pastels. I suggest you take an element from your images. In my case, for example, I took a couple of plants and with these elements I will experiment each of the techniques.”
In this video lesson Estelí Meza addresses the topic: Favorite techniques, 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 4 Favorite Techniques One of the things I like most about my job is to work with techniques, and my favorites are these three that we will see. They are colored pencils, acrylic markers and watercolor pastels. These are techniques that I really like and I will show you how I use them. We will start with the acrylic marker, which is this. They had already told them the brands that I like the most. This is a Molotow marker. What I like most about this technique is that it is acrylic material but in a brush, in a pencil. This marker has two tips. One is thin ... and the other is a little ...”
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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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