Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
Action and Movement
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Action and Movement
Overview
“Now, you will discover the action that the characters will develop, for that, I will teach you to generate gestures and movement. The more postures and expressions they have, the easier it is to immerse them in a visual narrative. ”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: Action and Movement, 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
“Action and Movement Once we're done creating our characters, what we're going to do is add some movement to them. If we want our narrative illustration to become a narrative piece, we need to highlight the action, the expressiveness in our characters, and convey a feeling, an emotion. So we're going to focus on the girl. We're going to draw her mid-movement. What you're going to be doing is adding some movement to your characters. The more poses and expressions you find for your characters, the better it'll be for our visual narrative. I'm going to draw a vertical axis... ..for this static ...”
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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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