Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
Characters
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Characters
Overview
“You will begin by exercising observation, through it, you will extract the necessary information to create and draw your characters.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: Characters, 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
“Characters There are many things we can use as inspiration in narrative illustration. What story are we telling? What is our illustration all about? We've learned in narrative illustration you needed your characters to be expressive, that you needed action, you had to convey a certain feeling. When I started looking for objects and elements that would inspire me to create my new characters for my narrative illustration, I discovered I'd be creating two of them. I took this object that I have as decoration at home, a Mexican girl with a basket. And I found this wood horse made with bottle ca...”
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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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