Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
The Environment
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: The Environment
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how to make the elements of the environment where the characters will be located. By appealing again to observation, the narrative possibilities of the forms that the environment provides will be discovered and revealed. ”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: The Environment, 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
“Environment So, we have our characters, the girl and the horse. Now it's time to figure out what their environment will look like, or, in other words, the place where our story takes place. When I created my characters, I'd come up with this adventurer, a sweet, extroverted little girl. She had these star-like ribbons in her hair. Her horse was her sidekick in this adventure. So my first idea were these two characters going on an adventure. I live in a very natural place, surrounded by nature, so all my elements are connected to nature. I got some stones, some twigs. Big and small. Some fea...”
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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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