Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor
Your Ideas, on Paper!
A course by Valentina Armstrong , Designer and Illustrator
Joined May 2020
Joined May 2020
About the video: Your Ideas, on Paper!
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how I create the character sketch. This is a step that is not always easy, but you have to keep in mind the concepts defined above, and more importantly, have patience and perseverance! ”
In this video lesson Valentina Armstrong addresses the topic: Your Ideas, on Paper!, 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
“Your ideas on paper! In this lesson I'll show you how I tend to plan the sketches for my character. Finally we can see what we'll develop in our project. I'll start by doing the head with a very transparent circle looking for a line to identify what the character will look like and the shape. I start from a sphere doing the head. Then I do a type of rectangle with a curved line that will be the neck. Then with another line I'll try to mark the shoulders because I want my character to have one shoulder higher than the other, like in diagonal, to have a kind of tension in that direction. I'll...”
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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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