Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
Digitise and Outline Your Kawaii Character
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: Digitise and Outline Your Kawaii Character
Overview
“Let me show you how I digitise my sketches, as well as some general first steps in Procreate.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: Digitise and Outline 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
“Digitise and Outline Your Kawaii Character I'll go through my sketches and select the ones I want to include in my sticker sheet. I'll select the ones that I like the most and that I think will look cute in the sticker sheet. We already saw the teddy bear is really cute. I'll place a check next to it to remember that I want this one. I like the hanging sloth because it's typical and I want it there. I think this one is fun. Also the burrito sloth because it shows his personality. This one as well, because I want to show where he lives. I'll put a check. This one as well. As I have two of th...”
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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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