Children’s Digital Illustration: Colors and Textures
About Me
A course by John Joven , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“Hello, my name is Young John; I am Colombian and I currently live in Bogotá. In this lesson I will tell you about my career as a freelance illustrator for more than 20 years. ”
In this video lesson John Joven addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Digital Illustration: Colors and Textures. Learn to create illustrations that tell endearing stories by combining the use of analog textures and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, welcome to my course, I am very happy that you are here. My name is Young John. I'm an illustrator from Bogotá and graphic designer from the National University. Since I was a child I have always drawn, I filled my school notebooks with characters like the Transformers, which were my favourites. Thanks to my parents I started taking art classes at the age of ten. I always saw myself as an architect, but I also had the opportunity to study at a technical college and there I knew that this kind of drawing was not what I liked. In college I was called to do a little drawing...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Digital Illustration: Colors and Textures
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

John Joven
A course by John Joven
John Joven started drawing at a young age and is now a graphic designer by trade and an illustrator at heart. With more than 22 years of experience in the industry, his characters and illustrations have appeared in magazine and newspaper articles, children's books, and animation projects around the world.
Throughout his career, he has created illustrations for children's stories published by major companies like McGraw Hill, Planeta, and Macmillan. He has also designed images for Amazon, Avianca, and National Geographic Channel.
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