Kawaii Illustration: Create Charming Characters
How to Start Your Own Kawaii Sticker Business
A course by Ilaria Ranauro , Illustrator
About the video: How to Start Your Own Kawaii Sticker Business
Overview
“In this lesson, I will let you in on some secrets about how I established my own kawaii business.”
In this video lesson Ilaria Ranauro addresses the topic: How to Start Your Own Kawaii Sticker Business, 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
“How to start your own Kawaii Sticker Business In this lesson, I'll give some tips on how to start your kawaii sticker business. I'd suggest you to open an Instagram page. Don't be scared. Start with it. Start posting about your stickers, your art. For sure, your audience will grow with time. Be patient, be consistent, and post whenever you have the time. Also, try to interact with your audience, reply to their comments, messages. Also, try not to push too much about your products. Alternate some posts about your products with posts on teaching something to the audience or entertaining them....”
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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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