Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story

Overview

“Now we are going to work on creating the character from a graphic survey. Important tip: always think about the personality first and not the visual; ask questions about how he would behave; think about body expression and from these elements, start to build clothes and props.”

In this video lesson Weberson Santiago addresses the topic: Character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story. Learn composition techniques for illustrating a story from first idea to final prototype.

Partial transcription of the video

“Character In this lesson, we'll build our character. Before we begin, I'll show you a bit of the work of two illustrators that influence me and that may also inspire you when creating your character. It's important to do graphic research to compose this universe. Apart from spontaneous drawings, it can increase your graphic vocabulary and that helps in the quality of our work. The first illustrator I'm going to show is Maria Keil, a Portuguese illustrator. This is a current edition, but it was first published in 1953. Her work is really cool because she uses simple shapes, very geometric, l...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Children's Books: Create a Unique Story

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (177)
• 4470 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 45m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration