Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
Developing Your Kawaii Character
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: Developing Your Kawaii Character
Overview
“Now let me show you how to develop your character, create a short story and a mood board on Pinterest.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: Developing Your Kawaii Character, 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
“Developing your Kawaii Character In this lesson, we’ll start developing our characters. First of all we need to understand, if you want to draw an animal, a human, or an object, or even food. I’d recommend you to keep a list of things that inspires you. It could be a movie that you watched, or an object that you saw on a window in a shop, or probably a flower, or stuff like that. Just keep a list on your sketchbook, or just on your phone, so that you always have a list of ideas and when you want to draw something, you have them all collected there. You can also think about creating a mood b...”
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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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