Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions
Scanning and digital treatment of illustrations
A course by Noemí Villamuza , Illustrator
About the video: Scanning and digital treatment of illustrations
Overview
“In this lesson we prepare the drawings to be scanned and later retouched in Photoshop. I will teach you how to carry out this process.”
In this video lesson Noemí Villamuza addresses the topic: Scanning and digital treatment of illustrations, 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
“Scanning and digital treatment of illustrations Once we have our illustrations done, It's time to scan them. When I scan a black and white illustration, I use grayscale to record the original. When I scan an illustration that has color, I do it in CMYK. That assures me an optimal registration of the original drawing. In this lesson we are going to use Photoshop to give the necessary finishing touches. Let's see it! We open Photoshop. Let's make a new document that has a format of 17 x 14, 300 resolution and CMYK color. White background. On this base, as a canvas, we are going to place the i...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Illustration: Portraying Emotions
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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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