Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children

Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children

“Congratulations! You have now come to the end of this course. I want to thank you for your participation and hope you gained valuable insight, confidence and inspiration for your illustration projects. Now I would like to see your finished work! Before that, let me remind you that I don't want you to follow my project to the letter. Rather, I hope that you will let your inspiration run free, implement your creative ideas and create your very own funny characters. As a reminder, here I have summarized the most important steps to be followed to design the poster for you as briefly as possible. The layout Think about the format your poster should have and roughly sketch the layout to plan the composition of the image.

The characters Place your figures on your poster and arrange them according to your sketch. The scene When everything is placed in a coherent way, add (if it suits you) a central element that everything moves around, or an element that ties everything together. Details, movement and interaction After that you can add elements of movement and interaction. Details and shadows also round off your poster in this step. The finishing touches Give your poster the finishing touches by taking a step back and using a simple trick to check that everything looks right. Once you are satisfied with the result, upload your finished project to the forum. Simply click on "Create your project". Don't forget that you can exchange ideas with other course participants in the forum. Get feedback, share your ideas and also comment on the work of others. Of course, I will also stop by as often as possible to answer your questions and give you tips. I wish you a lot of fun and good luck! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“final project Thank you very much for doing this course. I hope you liked it. I had a lot of fun designing it. Next, I would like to briefly summarize this course. The first thing we did was to look for inspiration. Then we went through creativity exercises, to let ideas flow. I showed you my favorite brushes in Photoshop and helped you create a color palette. We painted the basic shapes for our creatures and combined them into new forms. Then we built them step by step with lines, textures and movements. After that we played around freely to give our characters a unique touch. Once our fig...”

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Course summary for: Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (49)
• 1117 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (2h 25m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Picturebook