Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Influences
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now I will describe the artists who inspire me the most and to whom I always refer in my work as an illustrator. ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters. Learn to design expressive characters in Photoshop by focusing on traits, poses, framing, composition, color, and shading.
Partial transcription of the video
“Reference models In this lesson I tell you about my sources of inspiration. The first artist I want to tell you about is Loish, a Dutch artist, a digital artist that I have been following for many years and has always been a great source of inspiration for me. I really like the way he uses color and light. The first illustration I want to tell you about it's this illustration here that's actually a little different from his usual style, because it is very dark and is practically monochromatic. I love how it manages to show all the elements and especially how the leaves stand out, and also t...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration
Alessia Trunfio
A course by Alessia Trunfio
Alessia Trunfio is an illustrator who specializes in children's books. Her love of drawing as a child motivated her to pursue the arts in college, studying a degree in film, followed by an animation course at the Scuola Internazionale di Comics in Rome. Soon after, she started working at an animation studio as a background artist.
Thanks to sharing her fanart and other works on platforms like Behance, she built a reputation and found success as an illustrator, turning it into a full-blown career. Over the years, she's collaborated on illustration and book cover projects with some of the biggest names in publishing, including Bloomsbury, Scholastic, Capstone, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
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