Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe
About Me
A course by Maddy Vian , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain my backstory in education and how I found myself leaning towards children’s illustration.”
In this video lesson Maddy Vian addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe. Learn to illustrate an original story by combining digital and traditional illustration tools to create friendly characters and bold scenes.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi, welcome to my course. My name is Maddy Vian and I'm a freelance illustrator working by the sea in Kent in England. In this lesson, I will tell you a little bit about me and why am I here today talking to you about illustration. I was always drawing as a kid. I found it a welcoming escape. I grew up in a tiny town with lots of fields around me and not a lot else. I think I was quite an introverted child and I found it as a way to be on my own and get fully immersed into my drawing. I used to make up these secret stories in my head and my mom would staple them together and make t...”
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Course summary for: Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Narrative, Picturebook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Maddy Vian
A course by Maddy Vian
Maddy Vian is a UK-based freelance illustrator who immersed herself in drawing at a very young age. She was experimenting with drawing before she could even write, and eventually went on to study illustration and animation at Kingston University in London. There, she began sharing her work online and, after building a professional network of clients, took her freelance career full-time.
Maddy has worked on everything from art direction to packaging design and now specializes in illustrations for children’s books, where she focuses on bringing kindness to her creations to convey warmth and comfort to her readers. She has worked for brands including Penguin Random House, Ohh Deer, and Twitter UK.
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