Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe
How to Make Characters Younger or Older
A course by Maddy Vian , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: How to Make Characters Younger or Older
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to draw a character’s age.”
In this video lesson Maddy Vian addresses the topic: How to Make Characters Younger or Older, 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
“How to Make Characters Younger or Older In this lesson, I'll show you how I draw different characters at different ages. We're going to go into Photoshop. We can start with this basic face with my average stock proportions. This one looks roughly like me, so take that as you will. I thought it would be a good one to use as an example, but obviously this can apply to all kinds of faces. What I've done is break it down into different parts. I don't normally do this for a sketch, but this is for the purpose of showing you how subtle changes to the proportions can help drawing younger character...”
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Course summary for: Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe
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Category
Illustration -
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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