Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
Retouch
A course by Natalia Colombo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Retouch
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you how to work your characters and background elements in Photoshop. We will retouch lights, shadows, colors and textures.”
In this video lesson Natalia Colombo addresses the topic: Retouch, 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
“Retouch Now that we have our drawing ready and we already took a picture, we scan it and have it on the computer, what we are going to do is with Photoshop start retouching lights, shadows, colors and textures. I have the photo here ready, but what can also be done is to take individual photo of each one of the characters so you can work on them later. Before you start tweaking them, What we are going to do is set our document. For that I prepared a document which is 40 cm long x 20 high. The format of this closed book is going to be a 20 x 20 square, but for this what we have to generate a...”
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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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