Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
Composition
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Composition
Overview
“The time has come to define what the final illustration will be. You will discover, through different compositions, what your characters are doing and how they interact with the elements of the environment that you previously selected.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: Composition, 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
“Composition Once we're done with the contours for our characters and our environment, we're going to start with our layout. To do that, I'll get all my contours in the table and put them in place. We'd said one of the main features for narrative illustration is that our image needs to convey action, emotion. Our characters need to be expressive. That's what we're going for in this layout stage, especially the action part. So what are our characters doing? We already know that my characters, the girl and the horse, are going on an adventure. So one of the first things I'm picturing for my la...”
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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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