Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
Print and Cut with the Cutting Machine
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: Print and Cut with the Cutting Machine
Overview
“After having arranged our sticker sheet, let me tell you what to watch out for when printing your stickers and how to cut your sticker sheet with a cutting machine.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: Print and Cut with the Cutting Machine, 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
“Print and Cut with the Cutting Machine In this lesson, I'll show you how to print and cut your stickers. But before going on and printing our sticker sheets, I'd like to show you some papers. I use the matte paper the most for the sticker sheets, for example. As you can see, it's not too shiny. It's more like regular paper. While the glossy one, as you see, has a reflective finish and it's also more shiny. It is a personal choice. It depends on your taste and style, which one you want to use. Of course, there are lots of brands selling sticker sheets and paper online. There's a great select...”
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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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