Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
Sketching Your Characters
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Sketching Your Characters
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how I use the descriptions from the text and combine them with my own ideas to create my characters. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Sketching Your Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration. Kick-start your career as a children's book illustrator by building a powerful portfolio that captures the attention of publishers.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Sketching Your Characters I'll sketch the characters for my book. Thanks to my notes, I know that Rat, Mole, Toad, and Badger are the main characters of the story. Because of my notes, I also know that Rat and Mole are the characters that appear in most of the illustrations, so I'll start with them. From my notes, I know that Rat is friendly and outgoing, but kind of a homebody. He loves sailing, so I'll incorporate that into my design. In the last lesson, I made a mood board with all of this information, so I could have it with me as I make my design. When I design, I usually try to star...”
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Course summary for: Building a Portfolio for a Career in Children’s Illustration
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Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Narrative, Portfolio Development, Sketching, Traditional 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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