Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
Influences
A course by Natalia Colombo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Next, I will tell you about my influences and the artists that continue to inspire me today when developing my projects.”
In this video lesson Natalia Colombo addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“influences In this lesson I am going to tell you a little who were the artists that influenced all my work. Max Hookah. Max is an illustrator, cartoonist and artist who lives in Argentina. He is one of the first I met as a cartoonist and his works always fascinated me. I discovered your work when in my adolescence I began to buy the magazine "Fierro", that was full of comics, and on the first back cover I discovered his work, that I found all his handling of colors very interesting and the characters that seemed to melt. Then I started collecting these magazines and I started seeing how wer...”
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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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