Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
Mood boards
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Mood boards
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain what an mood board or inspiration board is. I'll show you how I use it to gather images that will serve as reference and inspiration throughout my project. Lastly, I'll create my mood board in Procreate, dragging images into a document from my photos app.”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Mood boards, 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
“MOODBOARDS For me it is very important for a project having some references of what I will include in my illustration or what details are important to the character. To do this, I support myself by creating a mood board. A mood board is a tool that allows me compiling images that give me a reference of what I will create. When you make a mood board, you can include whatever you want. It can be from references how does your character look or a very specific outfit that your character will wear. It can be a color palette that you want to use, certain notes that you need to keep in mind when y...”
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Course summary for: Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
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Category
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Software
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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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