Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
First sketches
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: First sketches
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to combine what I taught you about drawing with basic shapes with information from my mood board to create a human character and his imaginary friend. I'll show you how, after creating my base structure, I add details until I have a first version of my characters. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: First sketches, 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
“FIRST SKETCHES In the last unit I showed you some skeletons what i did for characters, thinking three-dimensionally about the possibilities that I had of characters that could be the girl in my project of a child and his imaginary friend. Right now I'm going to show you the next step to create the sketch of my character based on these little skeletons. So I'm going to take one of these, I'm going to remove opacity from this layer and I'm going to use it as a base to build a new character. Already in this I can start to put details what kind of eyes I would like to add. I can test a nose sty...”
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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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