Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
Know your workspace
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Know your workspace
Overview
“To begin with, I want to show you how I prepare my workspace in Procreate. I will show you different options that you have to customize your document and your workspace. I will also review the IOS gestures compatible with the program I use the most. Finally, I will explain to you which brushes I am going to use for our project and I will teach you how to create a folder to store your brushes.”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Know your workspace, 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
“KNOW YOUR WORK SPACE The first thing we will do is familiarize ourselves with our workspace in Procreate. I will create a document from scratch for you to see all the options that the program gives you when creating a document. When you create a document from scratch, it gives you the option to choose the width and height of your documents and it will give you the option if you will choose to put this, these measurements in pixels, in inches, centimeters, or millimeters. It will also give you the option to choose at how many dots per pixel the document will be. For example, here by default ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
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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