Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions
Compositions
A course by Noemí Villamuza , Illustrator
About the video: Compositions
Overview
“Next, we will see that the drawings will be contained in a frame. In order for the composition to help us be more expressive, we must limit the sketch within a window or vignette. ”
In this video lesson Noemí Villamuza addresses the topic: Compositions, 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
“compositions In this lesson we are going to work with frames, points of view that will serve us to give more expressiveness to the character. We already have on this sheet nine tables which are the vignettes with the final format that the work we will do will have. It is important that these vignettes have the proportion of the final work of the assignment. Let's do, for each of the emotions, three different frames. These views They will help us to give more emphasis to the concepts they want to convey. I am going to do these first compositions with Pentel, because the fluid stroke of the i...”
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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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