Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
Friends and Animal Objects
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: Friends and Animal Objects
Overview
“During the second part of our drawing exercises, I will teach you how kawaii animals are typically drawn. I will also show you some ways in which you can draw your character's friends, such as other animals or inanimate objects.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: Friends and Animal Objects, 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
“Friends and Animal Objects There are three ways of drawing animals. The first one is animals standing in human position. It is not going to be realistic but a fantasy position. We'll use our square again, which helps with the proportion, and we’ll draw a cat. In kawaii, you get the feeling of the animal, by adding little details and the most popular features of that animal. For a cat are the ears, the whisker and the typical mouth. We’ll draw the mouth first, and then add more details, like the tiger stripes. It's already looking like a real cat. The position in this case will be standing. ...”
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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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