Children’s Character Creation: Techniques and Styles
Meet the Character
A course by María Antonella Fant , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Meet the Character
Overview
“To design a character, you first need a brief where the character is introduced and described, but you don't have it! Don't worry, for that you are going to look for some of the best-known characters in children's literature. You just need to get to know him a little more, right? ”
In this video lesson María Antonella Fant addresses the topic: Meet the Character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Character Creation: Techniques and Styles. Learn to illustrate characters for children’s stories that reflect your own personality using digital techniques to bring them to life through shapes, colors, and textures.
Partial transcription of the video
“meet the character In this unit we will see the conceptual stage to create a character. The concept stage is in knowing everything that is behind it, which is done through a brief. A brief is a description of the main features that make up our characters, that are answered by these questions. What's it called? What or who is it? Where do you live? What is your time? How is your personality? What things do you like and dislike? How is your physical appearance? In this case I don't have a brief and probably neither do you. What I decided to do is find four classic literary works, where we hav...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Character Creation: Techniques and Styles
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing
María Antonella Fant
A course by María Antonella Fant
Antonella Fant studied graphic design at the Universidad Blas Pascal in Córdoba, Argentina, but everything she knows about illustration she learned by herself through years of practice spanning back to her childhood. Overtime, she developed a distinct personal style, which she continues to enrich by exploring other art forms, such as digital collage and embroidery, and combining them with illustration.
She currently works as an illustrator for children's literature and educational platforms, collaborating with publishers like Mavericks, Igloobooks, Capstone, SM, Edelvives, and more. She has also participated in a variety of contests and was selected as the Dibujante Destacada 2020 at the ADA Awards (Asociación de Dibujantes de la Argentina).
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