Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
Materials
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Materials
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you what you will do in the course. Also, I will show you the materials I use and the ones you will need to make your illustration. ”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques. Create an illustrated story full of life with a unique style that combines multiple techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Materials In this course, we're doing a children's illustration project. We'll be focusing on the importance of narrative and its effect on the visual side of things. We're going to start by choosing an element at home that you're going to be sketching later on. We're going to use them to create a character and we'll be using these elements you can find around you to act as companions for our characters in our illustration. We're going to create a number of drawing and collage compositions and we're going to chose the one you like best. We'll be learning and employing a number of techniques...”
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Course summary for: Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Collage, Gouache Painting, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Cecilia Varela
A course by Cecilia Varela
Cecilia Varela is a Córdoba-based (Argentina) illustrator and author of several children's books. Ever since she was a little girl, she knew she wanted to be an illustrator, a dream that grew out of her passion for children's books and stories. She studied at the National Institute of Fine Arts and specialized in drawing and painting.
She won first prize at the Mexican Illustrators Contest in 2007 and has since then collaborated with different publishers in Mexico and Spain, like Edelvives and Alfaguara. Cecilia creates her artwork by hand and then digitizes it for publishing. She uses a wide variety of techniques in her work, but most often creates with acrylics, gouache, collage, and colored pencils.
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