Online Portfolio for Children’s Book Illustrators
Creating a Character 3
A course by Marissa Valdez , Children's Book Author and Illustrator
Joined February 2021
Joined February 2021
About the video: Creating a Character 3
Overview
“You will learn how to try different ideas of the character in different settings. ”
In this video lesson Marissa Valdez addresses the topic: Creating a Character 3, 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 Now that we've created our final character sketch for Francis-stein that we'll use as a base for the rest of our illustrations, I want to show you a character sheet that I made for Francis-stein using that base. Here is our character expression sheet. You might remember me talking about this in our previous lesson about the elements of a portfolio. I talked in the presentation about how important it is to show different expressions and emotions in your character. This is going to be the base for our character expression sheet. Here I wanted to show Francis-stein garde...”
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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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