Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children
Creativity Techniques
A course by Anna Süßbauer , Illustrator
About the video: Creativity Techniques
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll share three creativity techniques that will help your ideas flow and create interesting shapes that draw on abstract art and elements from your environment. ”
In this video lesson Anna Süßbauer addresses the topic: Creativity Techniques, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children. Learn creative techniques to illustrate fictional characters that captivate young readers, from adorable little creatures to more extravagant ones.
Partial transcription of the video
“creativity techniques In the last lesson we got ideas for your characters. In this lesson I will show you creativity techniques, to let your ideas flow. The first of the three creativity techniques, that I want to show you, I have called wild forms. I often use this technique when things don't really want to flow. This technique can be used digitally as well as well as analogously with a brush and lots of paint. Here it just gets really raw and wild and without thinking about the result one or more shapes drawn on the paper. Leave your form to chance, as free and chaotic as possible. Then y...”
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Course summary for: Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Picturebook
Anna Süßbauer
A course by Anna Süßbauer
Anna Süßbauer is a Cologne-based illustrator who specializes in children's books and editorial projects. After working in several professional fields, she decided to pursue her passion for creating art and self-expression through images, a skill she taught herself. Her favorite way to bring the mundane to life is by illustrating brightly colored creatures with unusual shapes and funny features.
She's illustrated books for major clients like Miles Kelly, DK Children, Little Tiger, Hachette Worthy Kids, and Combel Editorial, where she was given the creative freedom to explore her style in ¡Tengo un hambre de dragón! by Mar Benegas. In the publishing field, she got to complete her dream project for the magazine Brigitte and has already illustrated the children's puzzle page of Die kleine Brigitte several times.
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