Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
An emotional face
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: An emotional face
Overview
“The face is the first thing we notice about a character. It's where we look for clues about what he's thinking and feeling. In this lesson I will show you how to draw the head in different positions and with different facial expressions. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: An emotional face, 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
“AN EMOTIVE FACE The next thing I'll do is work on my character's face. First of all, I want to tell you a little about a trick that you can use to create different facial expressions. Actually, what changes the face would be the eyebrows and the mouth, and a little of the eyes, depending on the realism of your drawing. For example, here I made this practical table in which you see that most expressions come from ... straight eyebrows, eyebrows down, eyebrows up, the open mouth as smiling, the neutral mouth, mouth down, as if scared. Everything else is subtle things in between. If you notice...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
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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