Digital Illustration for Children’s Stories
Course final project
A course by Teresa Martínez , Illustrator
About the final project for: Digital Illustration for Children’s Stories
Digital illustration for children's stories
“I hope that everything you saw during the course has been helpful for you to start creating the illustrations of your stories. Do not forget to share with me, in the forum, your final illustration and the comments, doubts or ideas that you have regarding it. I will be aware and eager to see your project, because feedback is very important in our field, after all, the last one to observe our work is the public, who gives your work meaning. See you soon! ”
Partial transcription of the video
“Final project Before finishing the course, I would like to review everything we saw. First, I showed you the ways in which we can address a text, which are three: complementing it, enriching it and denying it. Later, I started working on a "storyboard" so that you could see how I interpret the scenes. Subsequently, I took one of the scenes and I began to detail the sketch, and then do his study of values in gray, where we saw how to balance between the light zones and the areas of darkness, of shadow. Later, I spoke a little about color theory and I started to develop a color palette for yo...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration for Children’s Stories
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Narrative, Traditional illustration

Teresa Martínez
A course by Teresa Martínez
Teresa started out in illustration at a young age, publishing comics independently as well as in a local daily newspaper. She later studied to be a graphic designer but never stopped incorporating illustrations into her projects. In 2002 she started working in the editorial industry and published pieces with Richmond, Editorial SM, Castillo, Edebé, Alfaguara, and CONACULTA.
With more than 25 years' experience in the field of illustration, she has had numerous opportunities in the audiovisual world, seeing her illustrations appear in the short Imaginantes as well as internationally. Some of her pieces, including Swan Lake, Fábulas Mexicanas, Arthur and the Sword in the Stone, and Fantastic Body, have been published in England, France, Spain, Brazil, and the United States.
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