Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration
Thumbnailing 2
A course by Juanita Londoño Gaviria , Children’s Book and Editorial Illustrator
Joined October 2019
Joined October 2019
About the video: Thumbnailing 2
Overview
“Look at things from another perspective and think about what the story demands without focusing on detail. This is all about tests, trial, and error.”
In this video lesson Juanita Londoño Gaviria addresses the topic: Thumbnailing 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration. Learn how to illustrate a magical scene for a children’s book by exploring colors and textures with Procreate or Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Thumbnailing We learned about composition. I'll to teach you how to incorporate it into the creation of your thumbnails. The first thing that we need is to create the rectangles that we're gonna use to frame our illustrations. I'm gonna draw some rectangles and I won't be too polished because it doesn't matter. I wanna create something focusing on the composition and all the tools I gave you so that you can guide the eye of the viewer to the main subject. I'm drawing very small rectangles because I don't want to focus on detail yet, I wanna focus on composition. I'm gonna start on the first...”
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Course summary for: Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration
Juanita Londoño Gaviria
A course by Juanita Londoño Gaviria
Juanita is a children’s book, editorial and commercial illustrator from Medellín, Colombia. She began her academic career studying fashion design at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, but after realizing her passion was in illustration, she went on to study animation concept art at the Vancouver Film School. The heart of her work is centered on children’s books, which have inspired her creativity since she was a young girl.
Her work has been recognized internationally, and she has worked with clients such as Target, American Greetings, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Quarto, and Maaji. She is currently represented by Advocate Art Agency, which has allowed her to take part in a variety of unique projects like illustrating the children’s books Health Heroes and The King and the Pearl.
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