Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
An expressive body
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: An expressive body
Overview
“After the head follows the body. I will explain how to draw the body paying attention to the silhouette and legibility of your image. I'll show you how I look for poses that help me better tell my character's story. At the end of this lesson I will have my character sketch ready to use in an illustration. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: An expressive body, 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 EXPRESSIVE BODY Now, I will work on my character's body. One thing that happened to me when I started to draw it was that my poses weren't very dynamic. After discussing it with a teacher, He told me that what happened was that my images were very posed. I at first did not understand what they meant by this, but this person could explain to me, that what was happening was, is that when you draw, you draw someone running, But it doesn't look like someone who's running you draw it like someone what is he pretending to be running and said to the person, Take a picture of me pretending I'm r...”
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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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