Children’s Digital Illustration: Colors and Textures
Finish a character
A course by John Joven , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Finish a character
Overview
“Lastly, I'll show you how to finish a character using smudges and lines. ”
In this video lesson John Joven addresses the topic: Finish a character, 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
“finish a character Each process is individual. There are many ways to get to the same result. I hope that the lessons of the course, rather than compare or adapt them to your own work, serve as a guide and you can explore your own processes. In this lesson I show you How do I finish the character of my story. Accompany me. To begin with, and as we did earlier with some stage drawings, I use the Stroke tool to make the shape of the head. I apply line and color. From the Photoshop Basic Brushes menu I choose one that looks like graphite to draw messy hair. I speed up the video a bit in this p...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Digital Illustration: Colors and Textures
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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