Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration
From Big Areas to Small Details 2
A course by Juanita Londoño Gaviria , Children’s Book and Editorial Illustrator
Joined October 2019
Joined October 2019
About the video: From Big Areas to Small Details 2
Overview
“Remember to go from the bigger and least detailed elements to the smaller more complex ones. Later, you can work on the textures and details.”
In this video lesson Juanita Londoño Gaviria addresses the topic: From Big Areas to Small Details 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
“From Big Areas to Small Details The next step is adding the horse. I'm gonna invert it and I'm gonna distort it a bit, because I want it to look slightly different and kind of a reflection. I'm gonna paint it the same color that I had it on the color draft. I remember I had it on Soft Light. That looks good. Now I might add the tail for both horses, because I didn't add it for the first one. Procreate has this quality, it's actually not a good thing, but it happens and it's inevitable, when you modify the size, it will pixel everything, so sometimes when I do this, I go over the edges to ge...”
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Course summary for: Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration
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Category
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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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