Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
Drawing with basic shapes
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Drawing with basic shapes
Overview
“Now I will teach you to create characters, human and not so human, from simple figures. I'll explain how, when you combine variations of sizes and shapes, your characters look more diverse. Finally, I will create a template with characters to serve as an example to start making your own combinations.”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Drawing with basic shapes, 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
“DRAWING WITH BASIC FIGURES In this lesson I'm going to talk to you a little about how I draw characters with basic shapes. When I open my Settings menu and I press the Canvas option, can I add a drawing guide. When I put Drawing Guide, I get a grid which is your "default" grid. I'm going to put here Edit drawing guide and here I can decide what size I want my paintings to be. As I am used to working with centimeter measurements and I don't have a clear idea of how much a pixel is going to measure, I'm going to change here for ... 0.5 centimeters, my grid. I can change the opacity of the gri...”
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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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