Editorial Illustration of Characters in Gouache
Sketching our illustration: the characters
A course by Julia Bereciartu , Illustrator
About the video: Sketching our illustration: the characters
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to show you how I design my characters and work on their facial and body expressions, either using imagination or using references.”
In this video lesson Julia Bereciartu addresses the topic: Sketching our illustration: the characters, 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
“Sketching our illustration: the characters In this lesson I'm going to show you my character creation process. The idea is not that you copy my style, but that you use the tricks that I will give you so that within your style you improve your ability to design characters. In the end, finding your own style takes a lot of practice. One of the things I say a lot is that there is no problem in copying the style of another illustrator to practice, to learn. As long as those drawings stay in your sketchbook and do not use them to look for work or copying someone else, that's great. At first, I u...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration of Characters in Gouache
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Category
Illustration -
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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