Sketchbook Techniques for Children's Illustration
Sketching 1
A course by Ema Malyauka , Illustrator
About the video: Sketching 1
Overview
“Let's start sketching! Here, I will show how to use the personality of your character to create interesting sketches. Also, I will teach you a few techniques that will transform your ordinary characters into remarkable ones. ”
In this video lesson Ema Malyauka addresses the topic: Sketching 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook Techniques for Children's Illustration. Explore materials, colors, and drawing techniques to bring to life fairy-tale stories for children's books in your sketchbook.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Sketching I always start with warm-up sketches. I do them with my favorite graphite sticks, which I introduced in previous lessons. If you'll use the same material, remember to use fixative or varnish. It prevents your sketches from smudging. For the first sketches, I'll quickly do some warm-up exercises. It helps your hand and mind to relax and start drawing. Put your pen on the paper and do whatever you like. Try to draw this with one line. It's helpful. It's fine for the start. We're not working for the result. We just need to clean our minds. You can even close your eyes and try to im...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbook Techniques for Children's Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Gouache Painting, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Sketchbook
Ema Malyauka
A course by Ema Malyauka
Ema Malyauka is an illustrator from Belarus, currently based in The Netherlands. She fell in love with books from a young age, spending hours in book stores with her mother, and later turned her passion into a career. She studied at an art school as a child and went on to specialize in teaching and critiquing art. After graduating, she felt something was missing though, and decided to realize her dream of becoming an illustrator and start sharing her creations on Instagram.
Ema has since worked on illustrations for encyclopedias, postcards, book covers, and more. She has collaborated with Adobe, as well as smaller companies and charities, and has had her work published in China and South Korea. She also came third in an Adobe drawing contest. Ema has built a creative community called Sketch & Breakfast that brings artists together to sketch on a weekly basis, and she also sells her prints on Etsy.
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