Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor
What Will We Do in the Course?
A course by Valentina Armstrong , Designer and Illustrator
Joined May 2020
About the video: What Will We Do in the Course?
Overview
“Finally, I will show you the project that you will carry out in this course: an illustrated character that you will create applying various watercolor techniques. The point is to create a character with personality and identity! ”
In this video lesson Valentina Armstrong addresses the topic: What Will We Do in the Course?, 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
“What will we do in the course? In this lesson I'll show you the project we'll develop in this course. We'll create an illustrated character with watercolor and colored pencils. It'll be a character on a white background for whom we'll design some accessories to give them context. To get an idea of what we'll do in the project, I have an illustration of mine here. It's an illustration of a girl in watercolor and colored pencil. In this case, we also have graphite pencil. They are the same techniques that we'll use in the course. I'll first show you and tell you about the materials that I use...”
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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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