Sketchbook Techniques for Children's Illustration
Sketching 2
A course by Ema Malyauka , Illustrator
About the video: Sketching 2
Overview
“In the last lesson, we started the sketching process by doing some warm-up exercises and looking at references to center the mind. Now, it’s time to start developing your creative sparks into characters. A good way to get to know your characters better is to draw them in routine situations. Let me show you how I do this!”
In this video lesson Ema Malyauka addresses the topic: Sketching 2, 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 To know your character better, it's great to draw it doing routinely stuff. The scene is not important to us, but the time when a character is all by itself and we can truly see how it is. Try to imagine what kind of routine your character might have. For example, how does he drink tea? Would he hold his cup like this? Or maybe he could turn his finger like this? Or maybe he warms himself up with his tea? Or maybe he's relaxing? Through these positions, you can see the real character. I'd like to show you how I'd develop a routine for one of my characters, granny. Granny of Litt...”
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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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