Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
Influences
A course by Eric Castleman , Children's Book Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now I'll talk about my influences, and give you a quick introduction to the course project! ”
In this video lesson Eric Castleman addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop. Recreate traditional painting techniques with digital tools by exploring colors and textures to make vibrant illustrations for children’s books.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Now that you know a bit about me, I want to talk about people who influenced me throughout my life. I want to start with a person I remember from my childhood, and probably I get the most compared to in the field I'm in, which is Chris Van Allsburg. This book "Jumanji," which is well known, was a book that I spent a lot of time with in daycare. After school was out, I would go to daycare and pull this book out. My friends and I would open it and start flipping through the pictures and we would be amazed that someone could draw all this well. The fact that he didn't use any color ...”
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Course summary for: Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Eric Castleman
A course by Eric Castleman
Eric Castleman is a children’s book illustrator living in Montana who specializes in traditional painting techniques with digital tools. His interest in illustration started as a child and, having an artist for a brother and a sister interested in crafts, he was always creative growing up. He spent time drawing during school but didn’t consider art as a career until his wife, a painter, bought him a book on how to build a business from his passion.
Since then, Eric has worked for Highlights magazine, and The Monster Project, and has been featured by Kidlit411, Society of Visual Storytelling, and multiple art galleries. He works primarily in mixed media, integrating unique textures and light into his work.
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