Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks
Character Design: Adding Color 1
A course by Kevin Waldron , Illustrator and Children’s Book Author
Joined December 2019
Joined December 2019
About the video: Character Design: Adding Color 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will take our black and white sketches and begin adding colour. I will show you what materials I use and demonstrate how I experiment with colour before moving on to the final artwork. At the end of this lesson, you should know exactly what colours your characters will be and how to achieve that. ”
In this video lesson Kevin Waldron addresses the topic: Character Design: Adding Color 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks. Explore your daydreams and tell a story that makes children smile with watercolor animal characters.
Partial transcription of the video
“Character design Adding color In this lesson I'm gonna begin adding colour to my characters. I'm gonna be using these watercolour brush pens. Feel free to use regular watercolour if you like, or whatever medium you like, but I find these quite handy. So, I'm just gonna work in my watercolour sketchbook. Just for reference, keep an eye on these drawings that I did earlier, mostly for body shape. But what I wanna do now is experiment with the colour a bit, see what the watercolour does, make some mistakes and see if I can repeat them in a useful way later on when I'm actually tracing the shap...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Kevin Waldron
A course by Kevin Waldron
Kevin Waldron is a NYC-based illustrator and author who is dedicated to creating original illustrations for storybooks, animations, and other visual media. He grew up and studied in Dublin before moving to London to complete a Master’s degree at Kingston University.
His first book, Mr. Peek & the Misunderstanding at the Zoo, won the first ever Opera Prima award at the Bologna Book Fair and was recently made into an animated TV series. He has worked with several editorials including Hansol, Saatchi & Saatchi, Templar Publishing, and Penguin Books. His latest work includes t-shirt designs, temporary tattoos, and several storybooks, including a cookbook for dogs and a book that helps detect eye problems in young children.
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