Illustration for Children's Book Covers

Overview

“To get to know your character, you have to explore his emotions. In this lesson I will show you how to express each element.”

In this video lesson Manuela Montoya Escobar addresses the topic: Miniature Character Design 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Children's Book Covers . Create a fantasy universe with mixed techniques by developing your own cover, from the initial brief and character design to the final digital edit.

Partial transcription of the video

“Character Design in Miniature Another important process to get to know your character, that's key in children's illustration, are their emotions. Here I’ll show my character with different emotions. The advantage of animal characters is that they don’t just express feeling and emotions with their face, but also with their ears. You can do a study of how each animal behaves when it’s happy, when it feels threatened. For example, my dog is happy right now. Or interested in something, so it will have its ears forward. If, for example, he were sad, what would happen? His lips would curve down. ...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Children's Book Covers

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (131)
• 2946 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (3h 14m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Painting, Picturebook, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting