Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
Where do the characters live? 2
A course by Natalia Colombo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Where do the characters live? 2
Overview
“We continue to work on the different elements of the world that our characters will inhabit.”
In this video lesson Natalia Colombo addresses the topic: Where do the characters live? 2, 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? We are going to make this more free. For that, first we are going to also apply this pink color that together with the blue It gives me this tone that I find interesting. We are not looking for this to be totally controlled, but rather go out of control the line as much as with this ink technique, like when we apply the rest of the materials. For example, we can try another color to see how it would look or we can add more colors to each of the flowers and give it and everything is much more colorful. Those are tests that we can do with each of the elements tha...”
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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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