Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
Time to Draw Your Kawaii Character 2
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: Time to Draw Your Kawaii Character 2
Overview
“Let's continue to draw our cute little character. You can find inspiration everywhere: Whether it be sticker sheets, interesting objects from your daily life, or online images: There really are no limits to your imagination.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: Time to Draw Your Kawaii Character 2, 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 I can take some inspiration from my stickers. I liked this Polaroid frame. It looks really cute. I can make one with the sloth. It could be something like this and my sloth can be like saying, "hi." It's something really simple. Hair and bow tie. I can add a sun, some clouds to make the background richer. Don't forget that we always have our list about his personality. We can take some ideas from here. For example, he loves to play guitar. He doesn't like plastic, so we can make him protest against plastic. It could be something like this, he can hold the ...”
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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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