Character Creation for Illustrated Stories
What world does our character inhabit?
A course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: What world does our character inhabit?
Overview
“In this lesson we will do a thorough exploration of everything that makes up and gives life to our character's world.”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: What world does our character inhabit?, 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
“What world does our character inhabit? Now we will do a thorough exploration of what makes up the world of our character and we will compose the scene of the final project. Accompany me. In addition to our character, it is important to start thinking what are the objects that will accompany it, what his world looks like according to everything you thought about him, what is your wardrobe, according to that wardrobe, in what era is it located or what kind of world does it belong to, if it is a magical or more realistic world, if you live in an invented place. All these questions also lead us...”
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Course summary for: Character Creation for Illustrated Stories
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Category
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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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