Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children
Creating and Editing Shapes
A course by Anna Süßbauer , Illustrator
About the video: Creating and Editing Shapes
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn the basis for your characters: the shapes. You can create them, change them, combine them, put them together like building blocks. The practical thing is that it doesn't matter whether you want to paint animals, people, houses, vehicles or entire scenes - the bases are always the same shapes. ”
In this video lesson Anna Süßbauer addresses the topic: Creating and Editing Shapes, 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
“Create and edit shapes Lastly, we looked at the color palette, to make your characters stand out. In this lesson we look at the basis for your characters: the forms. For me, everything is around me and everything I see made of shapes. Shapes are therefore the basis for my pictures. I can create, change and combine the shapes, put them together, just like building blocks. This is how I build my characters and the world in which they move together. It's more like I'm drawing them. It doesn't matter whether I animals, people, houses, want to paint vehicles or entire scenes. The basis is always...”
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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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