Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
Character casting
A course by Natalia Colombo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Character casting
Overview
“In this lesson I will give you tips for choosing your characters. Then it's time to work on your expressions and details.”
In this video lesson Natalia Colombo addresses the topic: Character casting, 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
“character casting In this unit what we are going to do is start to select the characters that came out of the experimentation of the other lessons. What we are going to do is that first they will have defined What do you want to work on? if they already did experiments with the ink or with geometric shapes or drawing by erasing. I chose two ink characters. Things came out that were different from what I had been doing before. For that we had stayed with this character sheet and what I did to have more variety is to make new characters based on more or less the same forms. What interested me...”
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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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