Online Portfolio for Children’s Book Illustrators
Creating a Character 1
A course by Marissa Valdez , Children's Book Author and Illustrator
Joined February 2021
Joined February 2021
About the video: Creating a Character 1
Overview
“I will teach you how to sketch out character designs and create a character emotion sheet. It's important to explore different ideas until you feel you have the right one. ”
In this video lesson Marissa Valdez addresses the topic: Creating a Character 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Online Portfolio for Children’s Book Illustrators. Learn the fundamentals of children’s book illustration to create a playful portfolio ready to share with editors and art directors.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Creating a Character In the last lesson, we created our story, characters, and settings. In this lesson, we'll sketch our main character. I'll dive into how I sketch my main characters for my stories, but I encourage you to use your own characters and your own unique ideas as well. Use the techniques that you get from this course with your own unique perspective. Here we have our regular computer paper. It's another blank page, but I'm not as scared of it because I know it's basic computer paper. I can throw it away if I want to, I could throw it across my house if I want to, it doesn't m...”
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Course summary for: Online Portfolio for Children’s Book Illustrators
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Editorial Design, Management & Productivity, Narrative, Picturebook, Portfolio Development, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Marissa Valdez
A course by Marissa Valdez
Marissa is a children’s book author and illustrator based in Houston, Texas. Drawing and illustration have always been present in Marissa’s life, which led her to study animation at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. After her studies, she went on to work as a preschool teacher, an art teacher, and a graphic designer. She later discovered children's illustration and decided to pursue her newfound passion as a career
She has since worked with publishers such as Hachette, Penguin Random House, and Macmillan. Marissa illustrated books like Ambitious Girl, which was on The New York Times bestseller list, as well as the books Hedgehogs Don’t Wear Underwear and Esme’s Birthday Conga Line.
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