Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe

Exporting the Illustration and Sharing Your Work

A course by Maddy Vian , Freelance Illustrator

Freelance Illustrator. London, United Kingdom.
Joined November 2020
99% positive reviews (69)
2,102 students
Audio: English
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About the video: Exporting the Illustration and Sharing Your Work

Overview

“In this lesson I share how I add a signature and save my work in different formats for different purposes.”

In this video lesson Maddy Vian addresses the topic: Exporting the Illustration and Sharing Your Work, 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

“Exporting the Illustration and Sharing Your Work In this lesson, I'll share how I add a signature and save my work for different purposes in different formats. Let me show you in Photoshop. We finished our beautiful piece of work that we're happy with. Yeah, I'm really proud of this. It's going to do well on social media, but we want to give it the best chance that we can to make it nice quality and show up on people's feeds and all that good stuff. The first thing I want to do before I get ready to save it is starting a new layer. That's right. We're up to 103 layers by now. I'm going to p...”

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

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (69)
  • 2102 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

Maddy Vian

Maddy Vian
A course by Maddy Vian

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Freelance Illustrator

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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Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe. Illustration course by Maddy Vian

Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe

A course by Maddy Vian
Freelance Illustrator. London, United Kingdom.
Joined November 2020
  • 99% positive reviews (69)
  • 2,102 students