Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions

Drawing techniques for children's books

“Before we say goodbye, let's review the key phases of the project. It would be great if you briefly explain what you have done in each one and accompany the explanation with one or more images. Brainstorming and emotional map Brainstorm to order the concepts that will help you find your way. Design an emotional map that will help you later put into images what at first are just clues and symbols.

Bring your character to life Next, build the character that will be the main element for your final project. Storyboard Then, it is convenient to exercise, as a storyboard, composition frames that will serve to emphasize the emotional message of the illustrations. Final illustrations Now comes the time to make the illustrations combining the techniques of each piece: graphite-watercolor, graphite-collage, graphite-colored grease pencils and graphite-black ink. Digitization After finishing illustrating, he digitizes the images and retouches as necessary in Photoshop to prepare the images for later printing. Binding Finally, he makes an artisanal binding; the assembly for showcasing the final project. Three interior illustrations plus the cover, a dossier to professionally display your creations. Now share your final project with the community by clicking on "Create your project". Remember to share both the final result of your illustrations and the steps that have led you to them. I am looking forward to seeing your project and giving you feedback. Although I ask for your patience, I will try to access the forum as much as I can and what my professional projects allow me. Finally, I want to invite you to actively participate in the forum, not only sharing your progress, but also giving advice and trying to help the rest of the community. It sure is very enriching! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project Now we have come to the end of this Domestika course. But before we say goodbye, Let me review everything we've seen. First I showed you the materials that we would use in the course, I taught you a method to find ideas and I explained how to build a child character. Then we did our sketches and talked about compositions. Later we created our three illustrations, one about tenderness, another about mystery and finally, one that expressed euphoria. We use fat and graphite pencils in the first, collage and pencil in the second and watercolor and graphite in the last. In addition...”

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Course summary for: Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (42)
• 971 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 33m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting