Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor
About Me
A course by Valentina Armstrong , Designer and Illustrator
Joined May 2020
Joined May 2020
About the video: About Me
Overview
“I'm Vale Armstrong and I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. In this lesson, I will tell you about my academic training: from architect to illustrator, in addition, I will tell you about my first approaches to watercolor and my professional experience as an illustrator.”
In this video lesson Valentina Armstrong addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor. Learn to create and draw characters with unique identities by experimenting with watercolors and colored pencils.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction Hi, my name's Valentina Armstrong, I'm from Santiago de Chile. I'm specialized in watercolor illustration and my most recurrent theme is female portraits. As far as I can remember, from a very young age, I was always really comfortable working with art materials. A pencil and a piece of paper have always been a savior. At school I was always the bad student who couldn't pay attention, but I was always busy inventing things on the back pages of my exercise books. Later, I studied architecture. By chance, I had the opportunity to finish studying in Portugal. In parallel to archit...”
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Course summary for: Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Valentina Armstrong
A course by Valentina Armstrong
Valentina Armstrong is a designer and illustrator that has worked with brands like Basement, Aschehoug & Co, La Bonita Ediciones, and Sybilla. She specializes in creating illustrations using watercolors and other techniques like colored pencils to add accents.
She bases her characters on real-life people and captures their imperfect reality with watercolors and pencils. Both common traits and unique features are sources of inspiration that Valentina uses to imagine each character's inner world.
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