Character Creation for Illustrated Books with Watercolor
The characters meet
A course by Lorenzo Sangió , Illustrator
About the video: The characters meet
Overview
“Our fox is now ready to meet other characters. In particular, we find her in a scene interacting with the second character in the briefs for our final project: the burglar raccoon. I designed a setting that could tell their story in a simple way.”
In this video lesson Lorenzo Sangió addresses the topic: The characters meet, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Creation for Illustrated Books with Watercolor. Learn to bring the protagonists of your stories to life in watercolor, from the first sketch to the final retouch in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“The Characters Meet Now that we have the final design, with our character doing four actions, let's try to insert him into a more complex scene where he meets another character. The character the fox will meet is the second character of our final project: the raccoon burglar. As for the fox character, I followed the same steps for the raccoon. I studied the face, expressions ... movements, clothes, and colors to arrive at the study of the final character. For the study of the raccoon, I imagined several poses. Here where he's running, here where he is walking poised on a ledge, here posing ...”
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Course summary for: Character Creation for Illustrated Books with Watercolor
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Watercolor Painting
Lorenzo Sangió
A course by Lorenzo Sangió
Lorenzo Sangió is a children's book illustrator who comes from a creative family. He became fascinated with drawing at a young age and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brescia. In 2014, he joined forces with several classmates and founded The House Art Project, an exhibit space for young artists in the heart of the city.
After finishing his studies, Lorenzo began to participate in illustration competitions and won several of them, earning himself the title of Best Illustrator in the Città del Sole competition and the Battello a Vapore Award. In 2017, he studied a master's degree in editorial illustration at the Ars in Fabula school in Macerata and finished the course by publishing his final year project with the company Carthusia. Since then, he has been creating illustrations for different publishing houses such as Orecchio Acerbo and Edizioni Corsare.
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