Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
Where do the characters live? 1
A course by Natalia Colombo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Where do the characters live? 1
Overview
“Next, we'll use the same techniques we've seen to create the (simple, but powerful) backdrops and backgrounds that your characters will inhabit.”
In this video lesson Natalia Colombo addresses the topic: Where do the characters live? 1, 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
“Where do the characters live? In this lesson we are going to start working in what would be the elements to create scenery for our characters. For that what we are going to do is from the selected characters start to see what your personality is and what your traits are and what type of scenery would he transmit to us in order to create it. So what we're going to do is, on our character sheet, start selecting them and start seeing their features. For example, my characters They are this, this, this, this and this. What they denote by their characteristics and what I can imagine is that mayb...”
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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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