Children’s Character Creation: Techniques and Styles
Shadows, Lights, and Setting
A course by María Antonella Fant , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Shadows, Lights, and Setting
Overview
“The textures help create a certain atmosphere and lighting on the character, but there is one more step missing. I'll show you how I use harsher shadows and highlights to give it another level of expressiveness and emotion. ”
In this video lesson María Antonella Fant addresses the topic: Shadows, Lights, and Setting, 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
“Shadows, lights and setting In this lesson I will show you how I add lights, shadows and atmosphere to my illustration. Before starting with the illustration, I want to show you an example here on the iPad of one that I had illustrated a while ago. Here I have all the colors ready and they will see that it lacks shadows, lights, like the characters are very flat. Also, the colors are kind of desaturated, It's like this illustration lacks a climate. What I will show you is when I activate a layer group where I began to play with all these lights and shadows, we see that the illustration chan...”
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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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