Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
How to Find Your Style
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: How to Find Your Style
Overview
“In this lesson, I am going to teach you how to develop your very own style so you can create unique and individual artworks.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: How to Find Your Style, 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
“How to find your Style In this lesson, I'll teach you how to find your style. What does having a style mean? Having a style means your illustration will be recognizable and that you'll have some features you use all the time. This way, the people that look at your illustration can recognize it as your illustration and that you're the artist. It took me over one year to find my style. It has been a journey where I was always looking at other artists' work or I was always visiting bookstores. Also to try and understand what was nice for me, what I liked, and which direction I wanted to take. ...”
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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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