Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
Ink stains
A course by Natalia Colombo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Ink stains
Overview
“Now you will begin to experiment with ink stains to encourage you to face the blank page in a relaxed way and start creating your characters.”
In this video lesson Natalia Colombo addresses the topic: Ink stains, 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
“Ink stains In this lesson we are going to start experimenting with ink. What we are going to do with the ink is stains on the page, organically shaped stains and trying not to control what we do. As I told you, I am going to use a blue ink. This ink already has a dropper, but I am going to use another dropper that I have of another ink so that I don't get so mixed up. With these materials what we do it is to begin to section here in the palette different amounts. In this case we are going to put six or seven drops. We put less quantity. Three or four drops. In the last one we are going to p...”
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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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