Introduction to Illustration of Characters with Gouache and India Ink

Introduction to the illustration of characters with gouache and Indian ink

“Thank you very much for reaching the end of the course! I hope you have been a great help for the construction of characters. I hope very soon to see your final project. Remember that you will have to build a character of your own; You can be you, a historical character, an invented one, your favorite pop character or, maybe even your neighbor. The idea is that you print your personality and style; try to take some elements of your environment that can influence their shape, color and personality. You can include famous phrases or dialogues that you heard there. You can also play with textures and motifs from different origins such as a plant, pattern or typography. Do not forget to share your final character in the forum, I will love to see it. Thank you! See you soon! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“To finish, I will make a brief summary of everything we saw. First, we took the inspiration as a starting point and put together our "Mood Board" from of the things we like in order to develop our character, its structure graphic and the color palette. Later, I showed them the method that has helped me the most build my own characters and we worked with the exercises to draw from the absurd. Later on, I presented the materials with which we worked, showed them how to apply them and the correct use of the brush and the gouache. We saw how we can create our own colors from the primary colors ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Illustration of Characters with Gouache and India Ink

• Level: Beginner
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• 2333 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (3h 14m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration