Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions
Sketches
A course by Noemí Villamuza , Illustrator
About the video: Sketches
Overview
“In this lesson we will make the first strokes, the quick drawings that are born after interpreting the brainstorm.”
In this video lesson Noemí Villamuza addresses the topic: Sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions. Learn to compose compelling children’s illustrations using graphite, watercolor, and collage .
Partial transcription of the video
“sketches In this lesson I am going to draw the sketches for the illustrations from the sensations I had making the emotional map. Sketching is the best way to lose your fear of blank paper. They are the first strokes that will give rise to the first ideas, to the first schemes and forms of what the drawings will be later. For the sketches I really like to use very greasy pencils, for example hardness B1 or B2. I also use watercolor pencils. They leave a very thick trace on the page. I can draw with more basic strokes. We'll start with the sketches for cuteness. The sensations that this conc...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Noemí Villamuza
A course by Noemí Villamuza
Illustrator Noemí Villamuza was born in Palencia, Spain, and has been living in Barcelona since 1998, the same year she published her first children's book. She studied fine arts with a major in graphic design, but she found her true calling in illustration. She has released numerous children's and young adult books with publishers like Kalandraka, Kókinos, Media Vaca, and Nórdica, and has created illustrations for graphic novels as well as press and advertising content.
She was a finalist for Spain's National Illustration Award in 2002 and won a Junceda award for illustration in 2007, as well as an award for the IBBY poster for the 2010 International Children's Book Day. When she's not creating, she shares her knowledge by teaching illustration classes at institutions across Barcelona, like the Escola de la Dona, Escola Bau, and Escola Massana, and by running workshops at schools, libraries, and cultural centers.
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