Fantastical Character Illustration for Children’s Books
Backgrounds and textures
A course by Natalia Colombo , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Backgrounds and textures
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you how to integrate the backgrounds and the characters. I will also teach you how to apply textures to give the final touch to your project.”
In this video lesson Natalia Colombo addresses the topic: Backgrounds and textures, 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
“backgrounds and textures In this lesson we will integrate backgrounds and characters and we will apply textures to give the final touch to your illustration project. What I usually do in almost all my illustrations is to put a base to my double page. It's a yellow background from an old book. What I do is throw it on the double page. Let's zoom in a bit. We are going to put it on top of everything and we are going to multiply it. What this Multiply does is that it makes transparent about the elements that we have. The other thing we can do is put it below everything and what we do is that t...”
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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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