Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
Visual Textures
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Visual Textures
Overview
“For some finishing touches, you'll be crafting visual textures. I will show you some materials that I usually use to make them. These textures will be part of the elements of the environment of the characters.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: Visual Textures, 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
“Visual Textures I have the finished illustration here, all the layers of color, including with colored pencil. The textures I added with graphite pencils. And, if you look at the drawing, that was the sketch, I have at the very bottom a character, a rock, that I'll add as a silhouette and I'll place it as a collage on top of the illustration. Same thing with this area, where I have this tree. I'd like to make some leaves, I'll also put them in silhouette, placing them like a collage. This part feels a bit empty to me and needs some color contrast. So I'm going to think about tone of color a...”
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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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