Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Prepare sketch 1
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Prepare sketch 1
Overview
“Once you've chosen your thumbnail, in this lesson I'll show you how to refine it and add the important details to your illustration. ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Prepare sketch 1, 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
“Prepare the sketch In this lesson we will prepare the sketch of the final project. Once you have chosen the thumbnail, we will polish it and add the important details. This is the thumbnail that I liked the most, so now all we have to do is copy it and paste it on a new document to be able to enlarge it. So, let's do File, New and here it opens up, as I have already shown you, whole screen for the new document. For this type of illustration, I chose and I decided to use a classic A4 format. Remember, though, I'll give you this little tip, if you plan to post the illustration on social media...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
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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