Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
Color 1
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Color 1
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you how I color my illustrations. I'll show you some Procreate tools that help me color faster. I will show you how I create my color palettes very simply.”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Color 1, 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
“COLOR PART 1 Now comes the part of coloring our inked drawing. If you remember, I told you I would close all my lines because the way he was going to color was with buckets. I had already explained to you that you could fill in dragging a color and dropping it onto the canvas. Also if I make a closed figure and I drop the color, I also fill in on this. Why did I ask you guys to close your lines when you did and why am i closing my lines it's because right in Procreate there is a function, here in the menu that says Reference. Now that I checked as a reference layer the layer of lines, if I ...”
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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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