Kawaii-Style Story Illustration
Turn your characters into animals
A course by Sara Gaiaudi, Illustrator
About the video: Turn your characters into animals
Overview
“Let's talk about the various possibilities that exist for the character design of our character and see the process of turning him into a cat.”
In this video lesson Sara Gaiaudi addresses the topic: Turn your characters into animals, which is part of the Domestika online course: Kawaii-Style Story Illustration. Learn to draw characters by hand in the Japanese style of kawaii and digitize them in Procreate.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's see how to make our protagonist even cuter and more unique. A distinctive feature of my illustrations is undoubtedly the animals. especially cats. Imagine Alice as a cat. Begin drawing by sketching the head. Let's see how Alice would look as a cat. Sketch two long U's for the front legs of the drawing. It's a hook. For the back of the neck. Draw two P's to form the back legs in a seated position for the cat. and an S shape for our tail. Now. let's draw the ears as slightly rounded triangular shapes. and then the whiskers. Let's add the eyes and the little nose. Now make it like Alice....”
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Course summary for: Kawaii-Style Story Illustration
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Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Manga, Traditional illustration
Sara Gaiaudi
A course by Sara Gaiaudi
Sara Gaiaudi is an Italian illustrator from Turin who now lives in Pisa. Drawing and stories have been her two greatest passions since she was a child. During high school, she became increasingly interested in anime and Japanese culture and started to recreate scenes from manga in the kawaii style.
In 2015, she created a webpage with her boyfriend called Taylor&Ross where they posted their designs for T-shirts. She later created an Instagram profile with the same name where she shares her kawaii-style creations with the world. What started as a passion and turned into a hobby has bloomed into a full-time job as of 2020.
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