Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe

Overview

“Too many layers can be messy and confusing though so for example sometimes I might condense all facial features onto one layer –it’s still editable from the face shape if you want to change their mouth shape later for example but it means it’s also all in one place and speeds up the process of looking through all layer. ”

In this video lesson Maddy Vian addresses the topic: Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn’t Have to Be Green 3, 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

“Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn’t Have to Be Green We are racking up our amount of layers by now. I do like to keep a good amount of layers to keep everything really editable. It's a good practice to have if you are working for a client and they want a little thing changed here and there, or that you want to go back at the end and add different things in. It's really useful. But to keep it a bit more streamlined, sometimes I group Layers in, like this. With these little stickers they can be together. I also like to add all of the facial features together. I'm going to pick this dark colour here...”

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Course summary for: Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe

• Level: Beginner
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• 2119 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 10m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Narrative, Picturebook, Sketching, Traditional illustration