Character Creation for Illustrated Stories
Characteristics of a character
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: Characteristics of a character
Overview
“A character must have, above all, a personality that makes him unique. Here we will see how those special features shape it from the inside out.”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: Characteristics of a character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Creation for Illustrated Stories . Learn the tools to write and illustrate characters, both inside and out, by understanding their essence and their world .
Partial transcription of the video
“Characteristics of a character Thanks to archetypes and stereotypes, we will start working on the first ideas about our character. Who is he, what things characterize him, how is his personality, are some questions that we will solve in the exercise of this lesson. In this case, I have a list that I had previously thought about about the characteristics of my character, some are physical characteristics, others point more to your personality. I did not separate them into one category and another, I was only writing them as they occurred to me. And what we are going to do next is start debug...”
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Course summary for: Character Creation for Illustrated Stories
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Drawing, Editorial Design, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration, Writing
Valentina Toro
A course by Valentina Toro
Valentina Toro is an illustrator and writer with a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia. Her work revolves around her fascination with the unknown and the secret worlds that can only be discovered in books.
Over the course of her career, she has published seven books, five of which are children’s books. Her style can be described as a blend of textual narration with images that create universes inhabited by both forms of expression. She has also written three novels and done illustrations for other authors. She was a runner up in the Little Hakka Picture Book Competition in China and is currently represented internationally by Advocate-Art Inc.
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