Children’s Character Creation: Techniques and Styles
Shape the Character
A course by María Antonella Fant , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Shape the Character
Overview
“I'll start with the skeleton of the character. From the base of the design, I am going to start deforming and playing a little with its proportions and shapes to give it an appearance that represents what I am looking for.”
In this video lesson María Antonella Fant addresses the topic: Shape 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
“Shape the character In this lesson I will sketch the skeleton of my character. We already have the two fundamental tools to create our character. On the one hand, the basic structure that I taught you in a previous lesson, and our mood board with all our characteristics and personality. Already having these two tools, I will start to merge them and I will begin to play with the deformation of shapes and proportions, that all these characteristics will give me of our personality that we have written. What we will do is not only create a character, but we will create three characters, three v...”
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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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