Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
Character Study
A course by Eric Castleman , Children's Book Illustrator
About the video: Character Study
Overview
“What do you want to do with the character? In this lesson, I will try out some options for the composition. ”
In this video lesson Eric Castleman addresses the topic: Character Study, 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
“Character Study In this lesson, I'll look at references for the things in our images. I'll start looking at planes and how they're built. I'll start looking at a kid who wants to be a pilot or things like that. We'll start putting together the workings of the different objects in our image. Once we decided here that we'll have a biplane, I put two wings. I was thinking that, as it would leave a nice little shadow. Something that simple can take a plane and turn it into a plane from the past. Then, all of a sudden, there's a kid back in the day. That informs how our character will be. Now, t...”
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Course summary for: Children's Book Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
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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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