Fantasy Illustrations for Children
Ink Your Characters
A course by Julie Benbassat , Illustrator
About the video: Ink Your Characters
Overview
“I will teach you how to ink your final illustration and talk about the importance of your workplace and the paper you work with.”
In this video lesson Julie Benbassat addresses the topic: Ink Your Characters , which is part of the Domestika online course: Fantasy Illustrations for Children. Learn to create mythical compositions inspired by the world around you through a combination of digital and traditional techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Ink Your Characters In this lesson, we will ink our characters. Before we get to the ballpoint pen, it's vital to sketch your characters, to have an outline of what you want to apply ink to. This is good because if you make a mistake with the pencil, you can still erase it. If you make a mistake with ink, you can't. Here we have our character sketch we did, let's try inking them. This is my process and sometimes while inking my characters, I actually add a little bit more traits to them than before in the pencil. Your process can be different. You can do a bunch of character sketches before...”
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Course summary for: Fantasy Illustrations for Children
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Julie Benbassat
A course by Julie Benbassat
Julie Benbassat is an illustrator and self-confessed avid doodler who specializes in creating illustrations for editorial and publishing clients. She has been drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil and, after being encouraged by her art teacher to pursue a career in illustration, eventually went on to study for a BFA in the art form at the Rhode Island School of Design. There, she discovered the storytelling properties of illustration which are integral to her work today.
Julie combines traditional and digital illustration methods to create captivating artwork for clients including The New York Times, NPR, PLANSPONSOR, BOOM! Studios and Cartoon Network.
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