Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
Influences
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Let me share with you which artists inspired me the most.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters. Design joyful illustrations inspired by Japanese kawaii and turn them into stickers by combining digital and analog techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In the previous lesson, I introduced myself. In this one I would like to show you what my influences are. The artists that made me understand that illustration was my vocation was Fran Meneses. She's also known as Frannerd, and I got to know her because she has a popular YouTube channel. For me to see her improvements and a way to approach the career of illustration has been really amazing, because she taught me a lot. Also, in her videos she gives a lot of tips, and shares more about her career, and how to contact with clients and how to approach, for example, publishers. I was ...”
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Course summary for: Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Character Design, Manga, Traditional illustration
Ilaria Ranauro
A course by Ilaria Ranauro
Berlin-based illustrator Ilaria Ranauro has loved painting and drawing since she was a child. She would spend her afternoons illustrating characters from magazines and mangas and later went on to study Graphic Design professionally. She worked as a graphic designer in Rome and Berlin for eleven years whilst continuing to draw characters in her spare time. She eventually set up her own brand of homemade toys and completed a master’s degree in toy design in Milan. In 2017, Ilaria turned her childhood love of illustration into a career, opening an Etsy shop where she sells stickers, washi tapes, prints, and other accessories.
Alongside her online shop, Ilaria works as a children’s book illustrator for clients around the world including Penguin Random House Mexico.
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