Storytelling through Watercolor Illustration
Painting character and details
A course by Daniela López Marín , Illustrator and Painter
About the video: Painting character and details
Overview
“We are advancing! Now I will show you how to paint the characters, including their faces, fur, and clothes. In addition, we will work on the details of the entire illustration. ”
In this video lesson Daniela López Marín addresses the topic: Painting character and details, which is part of the Domestika online course: Storytelling through Watercolor Illustration. Learn to capture the moment by creating a visual work that tells a story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Painting character and details In this lesson we will begin to paint our characters. For this time I will use a much smaller brush unlike the other fat people, since that way I will move much better in these areas that are smaller. I will start with the dog to continue from left to right. I'll start staining him like what he said always starting from the brightest and then moving to the darkest. If you notice, I am raising the brush much more, unlike the bottom where he was almost lying. This also allows me to have better brush control. Then I'll switch to a much smaller brush for details l...”
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Course summary for: Storytelling through Watercolor Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Manga, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Daniela López Marín
A course by Daniela López Marín
Multidisciplinary artist Daniela López, also known as Dliok, is an illustrator and storyteller with a Fine Arts degree from the University of Chile. Her work aims to transmit sensations and emotions to the viewer by capturing soothing scenes of animals and nature.
Her unique aesthetic, heavily influenced by Japanese culture, has led her to collaborate with Harmonix and Hasbro on the music game Dropmix and several galleries in Chile and abroad. Daniela’s work can be found in a range of publications, at illustration fairs, and inside her online store.
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