Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
About Me
A course by Natalia Colombo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you about my beginnings in drawing, my first steps in the world of illustration, my processes and my personal experience.”
In this video lesson Natalia Colombo addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books. Free your imagination and learn to create unique characters that bring illustrated stories to life using experimental techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello! Welcome to my Domestika course. I am Natalia Colombo and I was born in Buenos Aires. I'm an illustrator and I'm a graphic designer and this is where I made my career. My family was not a family of artists. What I do have for reference is that he had a great-uncle who was a portrait artist and also my great-grandfather he made one of the first circuses, which was called Circo Colombo Anselmi. In my house there were a lot of books. My family was really a great reader. I loved those books. but the reality is that the ones I was looking for the most They were the ones with a...”
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Course summary for: Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Design, Drawing, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Natalia Colombo
A course by Natalia Colombo
Natalia Colombo is an illustrator and a graphic designer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires. She's worked in advertising agencies and her own graphic design studio. After gaining experience illustrating textbooks, she published her first picturebook. She now has more than 60 books published, and with each new book, a new challenge.
Throughout her career, she's had the opportunity to collaborate with publishers in France, China, Italy, Spain, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, and more. She has also received multiple awards for her work, including the International Compostela Prize for Picture Books and the Iberoamérica Ilustra award. In addition to illustrating books, she's collaborated on animation projects for two Argentine TV channels: Encuentro and Pakapaka.
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