Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
What will we do in the course?
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“Throughout this course I will teach you all the steps that I follow to create a character. From the planning process, the character design and how to create an illustration from your character. I will also tell you about my experience with Procreate and how it became my main work tool.”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate. Learn how to tell stories and convey emotions through children's illustration with your iPad.
Partial transcription of the video
“WHAT WILL WE DO IN THE COURSE? In this course I will teach you how to make an illustration with Procreate. But I think it would first be pertinent that I tell you why Procreate. Me when I got an iPad, he used it very little, it was really for occasional drawings. I knew about Procreate, because I knew other people used it, but it really wasn't the app that I used, I was used to using Adobe applications. At some point I tried the Adobe applications, I felt that they were somewhat limited to do professional work, so I just left the iPad as an occasional thing, to make a sketch from time to ti...”
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Course summary for: Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
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Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Jimena S. Sarquiz
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz
Jimena S. Sarquiz is a freelance illustrator specializing in the illustration of books for children and young people. During her career, she has had the opportunity to illustrate books for different publishers in Mexico, the United States, and Europe, as well as different magazines from Editorial Televisa (Mexico). In 2010, she illustrated her first children's book. Since then, she has illustrated ten more, mostly for publishers in Mexico.
Jimena is an active participant in comic events and design fairs, where she sells her illustrations. Her work can be found on social media under the name Monitos Bonitos.
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