Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration
Sketch 1
A course by Juanita Londoño Gaviria , Children’s Book and Editorial Illustrator
Joined October 2019
Joined October 2019
About the video: Sketch 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will focus on cleaning the lines of our thumbnails. The best way to make a compelling drawing is to keep track of the details that make it recognizable.”
In this video lesson Juanita Londoño Gaviria addresses the topic: Sketch 1, 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
“Sketch It's time to digitize our thumbnails. I'm going to teach you how to go from a rough stage to your final sketch. I usually work on layers on this part of the process because this allows me to not focus so much on perfecting the lines, but on making sure I include all the elements that will be in my composition, down to some details. Let's see how that works. I've already imported my thumbnail. I'm gonna click on it and I'm gonna change the size of the canvas to adjust it to the settings that I want. This is quite big. I normally, when creating an illustration for screen, do double the...”
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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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