Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
Time to Draw Your Kawaii Character 1
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: Time to Draw Your Kawaii Character 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will start to sketch the main character according to his personality. Then, I will add some friends and items to decorate the final sticker sheet.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: Time to Draw Your Kawaii Character 1, 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
“Time to draw your Kawaii Character In this lesson, we are going to start drawing our character. We can always refer to our sloth board. And first of all, what I want you to do is, observe the sloth. A sloth typically has a white mask on his face and two dark areas for the eyes. There are different species of sloths, but this is the most common one. Then he has a long body, long arms and legs. We're going to start sketching the face. This is where I usually start. I'm going to make this round shape. I'll try to draw the white mask and add the dark areas for the eyes. And then the nose and a ...”
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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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