Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration
About Me
A course by Tania Yakunova , Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“To start with, I'll introduce myself and tell you about my career as an illustrator. I'll also share what I’m up to these days.”
In this video lesson Tania Yakunova addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration. Learn how to draw characters with personality by exploring shapes, movement, proportions, and scale to amplify their expressiveness.
Partial transcription of the video
“ About Me Hi, I'm Tania Yakunova, an artist and illustrator from Kyiv. I liked drawing since I was a kid. I inherited it from my father and he from his father, though none of them were professional artists. My parents are journalists. At the age of seven or eight, I asked my mom to put me in art school. I studied there for seven years. I got bored drawing still lives and plaster heads, so I quit art school, but I continued drawing for myself. In university, I decided to study a non-creative specialty. I got a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences and Social Technologies from Kyiv-Mohyla Aca...”
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Course summary for: Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Tania Yakunova
A course by Tania Yakunova
Tania Yakunova is an illustrator from Kyiv. As a child, she was always interested in drawing, inspired by her grandfather who was a professional artist. She began studying at art school at the age of 7, and after graduating from university, began working as a copywriter. Tania later went back to school to study design and discovered a love for illustration in particular, which she put into practice working in a motion design studio alongside freelance projects in everything from editorial illustration to packaging design.
Since then, she’s become a full-time freelancer and has exhibited her work in galleries in France, the US, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Tania has worked with brands like Coca-Cola, Google, Upwork, Penguin Random House, Amazon, Visa Gold, Yves Rocher, and Facebook. She also runs her own poster shop.
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