Children’s Publications: Editorial Design and Illustration
Prepping Your Workfile
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Prepping Your Workfile
Overview
“First, I will show you how I create my work files in Procreate 5.1.7 and how I’ve set up my workspace.”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Prepping Your Workfile, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Publications: Editorial Design and Illustration. Inspire young minds by learning how to create magical illustrations for children’s publications with digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Prepping Your Work File Nowadays, I do most of my work on Procreate. I love drawing on my iPad. It's where I feel most comfortable doing my work. First, I'm going to show you how I would set up my file for the project using Procreate. The first thing I want to do is open up Procreate, and I'm going to create a new file. I'm going to go ahead and press the New canvas button. Again, I'm going to push the button right there at the corner to create a custom canvas. When you're creating a custom campus, in the tab for Dimensions, you will see the Width, Height, the DPI, and the Maximum Layers....”
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Course summary for: Children’s Publications: Editorial Design and Illustration
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration

Jimena S. Sarquiz
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz
Jimena S. Sarquiz is a freelance illustrator specializing in the illustration of books for children and young people. During her career, she has had the opportunity to illustrate books for different publishers in Mexico, the United States, and Europe, as well as different magazines from Editorial Televisa (Mexico). In 2010, she illustrated her first children's book. Since then, she has illustrated ten more, mostly for publishers in Mexico.
Jimena is an active participant in comic events and design fairs, where she sells her illustrations. Her work can be found on social media under the name Monitos Bonitos.
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