Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe
Learning About Proportions
A course by Maddy Vian , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Learning About Proportions
Overview
“In this lesson, we will learn about human proportions and how we fit in the space around us.”
In this video lesson Maddy Vian addresses the topic: Learning About Proportions, 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
“In this lesson, we'll be learning about proportions and how we fit into the world around us. This is a really great skill to have because it increases the believability of your creations and helps the audience to relate to what they are seeing. So, I'm a big advocate for drawing from life because I think it helps you gain that understanding of how proportions work. And once you have those understandings, you can then break them. Don't let anyone tell you that you have to stick to these proportions to work in children's books, I actually think it's better to push those boundaries and change ...”
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Course summary for: Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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