Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
Faces and Body Proportions
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: Faces and Body Proportions
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you the basics of kawaii illustration such as facial expressions and body proportions. On top of that, we will also be doing some drawing exercises together!”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: Faces and Body Proportions, 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
“Faces and Body Proportions In the previous lessons, I talked about the kawaii style. In this one, we'll see the features that make a character look cute. We already know the main features that we need is a round head and body. And I'll teach you how these features will give a childlike aspect to our characters. Let's start with the body proportion. I'm going to draw a square. You don't have to be perfect at this stage. I will divide this by half. Let’s say, this is 50% and this is another 50%. These are not precise percentages, but for reference, the head should be equally proportionate to ...”
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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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