Illustrated Characters with Paper

Creation of illustrated characters on paper

“We have reached the end of this course. Thank you very much for having accompanied me until here! I hope I have infected you with my fascination for this technique and continue creating and playing with paper. Before we say goodbye, I would like to make a summary to remember what we learned in five words: Play To find our characters, or for them to find us. Play seriously, without being afraid of making mistakes and without thinking about the usefulness of what you are doing, just enjoy the moment you are creating.

Develop The characters that were born from the game and get them to act, move and express themselves to your liking so that they become the protagonists of a professional illustration. Project For this, think about what situation you are going to illustrate, what the context will be and what format to use. He then designs a sketch to define the staging. And finally, decide on the color palette and produce or collect your own papers. Build The final project now that you have all the necessary ingredients: characters, situation, context, format, the staging sketch, the color palette and your collection of wonderful papers Share I invite you to participate in the forum so that we can be in contact. It is important that you upload your tasks, but also that you observe and comment on those of your classmates. Surely reading those comments will help you for your own work. We are going to build the forum as a team. Don't forget to share your final project here on Doméstika, And if you also want to share it on your networks, you can tag me with the hashtag #EstrellitaCaracolDomestika . See you on the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project We've reached the end of the course, and I hope you had lots of fun creating characters with paper. We started the course by reviewing the tools and materials that would help us create collages and cutouts to design our illustration. We saw what a character is and what we need to define it, create its own identity, and make it coexist with our ideas. What's more, we played a lot. We had a wonderful games marathon so we could find our characters, or they could find us. Then we performed a selection and chose the ones that could tell our story the best. We made paper sketches to...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Characters with Paper

• Level: Beginner
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• 4280 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 48m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Collage, Creating with Kids, Paper Craft, Traditional illustration