Children’s Illustration: From Storyboard to Picturebook

Overview

“Drawing your characters in different positions, in all angles and positions, will allow you to take hold of their shapes and thus put them to action. During this second part I show you how to do these exercises to get the most out of your characters.”

In this video lesson Rafael Yockteng addresses the topic: Sketch 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Illustration: From Storyboard to Picturebook . Learn how to create a story from start to finish with your own visual language and perspective.

Partial transcription of the video

“Sketching I will leave the two colors here in black. I'll reduce the brush a bit. Let's see how the structure of this character can come to be. He has a very long neck, I'll do something like that. With a very small head. Very long arms. And very big hands too. I select, i will cut half of this character and thus I save a few steps. I'll make the skeleton of this character a bit. Where will the cavities be, how will your jaw. It has a big mouth. This would be the skeleton of this character. I'll give it a transparency and in a new layer we are going to look for a gray. We will put this char...”

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Course summary for: Children’s Illustration: From Storyboard to Picturebook

• Level: Beginner
• 94% positive reviews (66)
• 1856 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 47m)
• 13 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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