Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
Developing the Character
A course by Aljoscha Blau , Artist, illustrator and author
About the video: Developing the Character
Overview
“First, I'll show you how to add different emotions to your character.”
In this video lesson Aljoscha Blau addresses the topic: Developing the Character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache. Discover the versatility of gouache by combining basic and experimental techniques to develop your own illustration style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Develop the character We have in the last unit painted a whole picture from start to finish and combines many techniques did some research, which we then used in the picture. But that's not all. If you like your picture and maybe also makes you curious for more, then you could go one, two, three steps further and try to get out of the picture and out of your character to elicit a little more. The animal I made is walking down a street meets people, probably doesn't feel so comfortable yet. But what is its character? How would it react if a banana fell on its head? Or if the animal found a g...”
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Course summary for: Creative Illustration Techniques with Gouache
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Painting, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Aljoscha Blau
A course by Aljoscha Blau
Aljoschau Blau is an illustrator, author and lecturer in drawing and illustration. After the Wall came down, he left his hometown of Saint Petersburg to study art and illustration in Hamburg and now lives in Berlin. Children's and picture books are his specialty. He has either illustrated or written more than 60 works and strives to do justice to each book with an individual illustration style. For the most part, he remains true to his favorite medium, gouache painting.
What appeals to him about the genre of the picture book is the illustrator's special responsibility to translate content that previously only existed in abstract language into the visual. He sees his projects as intellectual adventures with room for surprises, the grotesque and humour. He often lets the details do the talking and invites the viewer to look around in peace. His books in cooperation with German and international publishers, including Peter Hammer, Aufbau, NordSüd and Bajazzo, have received numerous international awards such as the German Youth Literature Prize and the renowned BolognaRagazzi Award. In "Multitalent Gouache" he recorded his experiences and techniques for illustration with gouache in book form.
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