Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
Developing the Character
A course by Melissa Castrillón , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Developing the Character
Overview
“Time to design your character! I will show you how my character was designed with the story and the setting in mind. You will learn ways you can make their personality shine through the page and the importance of continued experimentation. ”
In this video lesson Melissa Castrillón addresses the topic: Developing the Character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition. Develop eye-catching illustrations for picturebooks by using harmonious structures and a consistent color palette while experimenting with textures and media.
Partial transcription of the video
“Developing the Character In this lesson we'll be designing the character. It's important at this stage to think about what your character is going to be like, what they're going to look like, maybe what their personality is like, their clothes, accessories, and also how all of these things are affected by the surroundings. I'm going to create a spider diagram of my character, their hair, their accessories, what they're like as a person. We're going to start the spider diagram off by writing in the centre what the character is going to be, whether it's a person or what kind of being they are...”
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Course summary for: Picturebook Illustration: Explore Color and Composition
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Color Theory, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Melissa Castrillón
A course by Melissa Castrillón
Melissa Castrillón is a freelance illustrator and designer with a mix of English and Colombian roots. Growing up in a creative family, she knew from the age of five that she wanted to draw for a living. While studying an MA in children’s book illustration at the Anglia Ruskin University, she discovered screen printing, and with it, a new way to approach her artwork, focusing on color and composition.
Melissa has illustrated over 25 book covers and more than ten picturebooks, collaborating with publishers like Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Bloomsbury, and Scholastic. She has also written three of her own, Mighty Min, The Balcony and Can You Keep a Secret?, which have been translated into more than 20 languages. In 2019, she was awarded the Gold medal by the Society of Illustrators in New York for The Balcony. That same year, she was asked to redesign the covers for Philip Pullman’s popular trilogy His Dark Materials.
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