Editorial Illustration of Characters in Gouache
Search for ideas and references
A course by Julia Bereciartu , Illustrator
About the video: Search for ideas and references
Overview
“The first thing to do is choose which character and scene from your favorite book we want to illustrate. Afterwards, we must document ourselves and create a folder with reference images for the final project.”
In this video lesson Julia Bereciartu addresses the topic: Search for ideas and references, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration of Characters in Gouache. Learn how to create an editorial illustration full of life and texture using gouache paint, from the initial planning to getting it printed .
Partial transcription of the video
“Search for ideas and references In this lesson, you will first choose the theme of your illustration for your final project. Once you have chosen the theme of your final project, we are going to document ourselves and make a folder of references. I wanted to face this course as if you were facing a professional project, as if you had an art director who sends you a briefing and it specifies a lot of things for you. In my personal work, when I work on my sketchbooks, everything is much more free. I don't usually bother documenting myself or anything. Most of the time, as you can see here, it...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration of Characters in Gouache
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Gouache Painting, Traditional illustration
Julia Bereciartu
A course by Julia Bereciartu
Julia Bereciartu is an illustrator from San Sebastián, Spain, who now lives in Madrid. She specializes in editorial illustration creating artwork for both book covers and picturebooks. She has also done work in advertising and merchandising as well as for toys.
Over the course of her career, she has had the opportunity to work with publishing companies from the United State and United Kingdom, such as Quarto Books, Bloomsbury, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Penguin Kids, Abrams, Simon & Schuster, and Little Brown, as well as companies like Google, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon. She has also done illustrations for the publishing companies Alfaguara, SM, and Astronave in Spain.
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