Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
Coloring Your Kawaii Character
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: Coloring Your Kawaii Character
Overview
“Now you will start thinking about your color palette and colouring in your character sketches in Procreate.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: Coloring 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
“Coloring your Kawaii Character In this lesson, we'll find a color palette for our character, and then, we'll outline and color it. In kawaii, the rule is to keep it simple. This is true also for the colors. We'll choose from four to eight colors. I will suggest not to choose many. You can see what your favorite artists use and pick two or three color from them and start to change them a little bit and come out with new tones. A good thing is not to choose colors that are similar, but choose colors that has contrast between them. You can find many websites to look at color palettes, Adobe Co...”
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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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