Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Thumbnail and character choice
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Thumbnail and character choice
Overview
“In this lesson I will start working on the illustration. I'll look for the right references, then I'll dedicate myself to making the first thumbnails, focusing on the character's composition and attitude.”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Thumbnail and character choice, 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
“Thumbnail and character choice Before starting any illustration, a fundamental step is to look for references and make our own thumbnails. Let's see how in this lesson. For the final project, my idea was to make a character on a sunny day in a cornfield and I started precisely from this idea to look for various references between images, illustrations and movie screenshots that referred to the mood and the pose I had in mind. For example, in this first reference in this screenshot of this series, the protagonist has exactly the kind of pose that I imagined for the illustration. Now, it is s...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
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Category
Illustration -
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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