Soft Toy Creation for Beginners

Overview

“Now that we have our materials we also need our ideas. I find that ideas are usually a form of dialogue. It can be a dialogue between two artists, a dialogue with yourself, a dialogue with a dead artist, or even a dialogue with yourself from the past/future. I will be showing some of my sketchbooks, we will create some sketches together, and then we'll get to make them and think them through using paper and scissors. ”

In this video lesson Maria Mandea addresses the topic: How to Create Your Sketch and Choose the Colours, which is part of the Domestika online course: Soft Toy Creation for Beginners. Design and sew your own playful textile characters using paper, thread, and your imagination.

Partial transcription of the video

“How to Create Your Sketch and Choose the Colours In this lesson we're gonna play with color to generate ideas. For this I brought a sketch book. These are some ideas that I usually have whenever I have some free time or when I just generally feel relaxed. Maybe I'm doing the dishes and I come up with a character idea, so I'm quickly gonna sketch it in my note book. You can use regular paper but I prefer to have a sketchbook because I have them together all in one and whenever I want to find that idea I know where to look for it. I also like to leave some of my drawings unfinished. This is k...”

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Course summary for: Soft Toy Creation for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (243)
• 4021 students
• 5 units
• 13 lessons (1h 55m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, Character Design, Toy Design