Introduction to Picturebook Creation
Character Creation 1
A course by Ricard López Iglesias , Painter and illustrator
About the video: Character Creation 1
Overview
“In this lesson we will introduce ourselves to the universe of character creation, explaining the bases such as skeletons, geometric shapes, expressions, character, etc. We will see several characters (or variations of the same character) and we will analyze how their character changes by modifying certain elements of their anatomy.”
In this video lesson Ricard López Iglesias addresses the topic: Character Creation 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Picturebook Creation. Learn how to combine illustration with text to create unique stories by applying manual and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creation of characters I In this lesson we will get into the world of character creation. For this we will talk about concepts such as geometry, shapes, compositions, proportions or even expressions that will give character to the characters that will accompany our story. If we were drawing in the real world, in realism, the proportions would be, if we have a head, the human body works with seven times the size of the head. That is, we have this size, we would multiply it by 7. Three, four, five, six and seven. This would be the total of our realistic human body. We would have the neck here...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Picturebook Creation
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Ricard López Iglesias
A course by Ricard López Iglesias
Ricard—aka Ricardilus—López’s passion for drawing started when he was three years old, always surrounded by pencils, paints, and sketchbooks, although his vocational calling for illustration started at the age of sixteen when he began his art studies.
He started with Fine Art studies for one year, which he later changed for Higher Level studies in Animation and 3D at EASD Pau Gargallo, in Barcelona, Spain, as he always loved the idea of bringing his drawings to life. During that time, he also took several illustration courses and completed his studies with a short animated film (La Folie), for which he was selected and rewarded by many renowned competitions. He then studied Graphic Arts at the Escuela Joso in Barcelona and graduated in 2017. Currently, he devotes all his professional energy into illustration, alternating many different types of projects that all relate to art in some shape or form.
His illustrations are usually based on the female figure, although he strongly believes that a good illustrator should never stay within a particular style, and is always looking for new areas and techniques to learn and include in his work. This has secured a long list of major clients for Ricard, including Penguin Random House, Planeta, TSL Jewellery (Hong Kong), Joyería Suárez, SofarSounds, or the National Art Museum of Cataluña (MNAC), in Barcelona, Spain.
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