Picturebook Character Illustration with Procreate
Coloring the Characters 1
A course by Gozde Eyce , Picturebook Creator
About the video: Coloring the Characters 1
Overview
“Coloring the characters will help you make them unique! Therefore, I'll show you how to do it using base coloring, different layers, alpha lock, clipping mask, shadows, etc. ”
In this video lesson Gozde Eyce addresses the topic: Coloring the Characters 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Picturebook Character Illustration with Procreate. Learn to create unforgettable picturebook characters to put together a portfolio and land the publishing projects of your dreams.
Partial transcription of the video
“Coloring the Characters In this lesson, we'll be coloring our characters. Now we have one layer of sitting poses and the other layer of standing poses. Let's merge those together. I'm choosing these two layers and making a group, and with this group, I'm choosing Flatten so that now it's one layer. I'll rename this layer as my "Sketch." Now I'm opening the colored one here to see which colors are used and I'm taking the colored one on top of my sketch so that all the colors used here are visible. I also have my color palette here, the Bunny color palette. Now our colors are ready and we can...”
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Course summary for: Picturebook Character Illustration with Procreate
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Narrative, Traditional illustration

Gozde Eyce
A course by Gozde Eyce
Gozde Eyce is a freelance illustrator and picturebook creator from Istanbul. After completing a degree in business management and working in the corporate world, she decided to turn her passion for drawing into a career. As a self-taught artist, she developed her skills by observing, reading, and sketching. Gozde eventually realized that her colorful and artfully imperfect illustration style was ideal for children’s literature, and she began sending out her portfolio to publishers, landing numerous freelance jobs.
Since then, she has taken on many different projects all over the world, including children’s books, kids’ apparel, and editorial illustrations. She has also collaborated with NGOs and publishers like Justdiggit, UNICEF, and Mo’s Daughters, embracing these opportunities to support causes like sustainability and equality.
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