Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children
Combination of Shapes and Lines 1
A course by Anna Süßbauer , Illustrator
About the video: Combination of Shapes and Lines 1
Overview
“Now that you've got to know the world of shapes, let's go one step further and combine different shapes and add lines. ”
In this video lesson Anna Süßbauer addresses the topic: Combination of Shapes and Lines 1, 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
“Combination of shapes and lines In the last lesson we looked at the basis for everything: the forms. In this lesson we go one step further and combine the shapes and the line with each other. You have now learned the basic ingredients for your figures, so the forms. Now let's combine and expand them and create new shapes from them. Here are our shapes from the previous lesson. I scaled them down a bit and put together a little differently. Then I renamed the layers here and put in order so that we can find everything properly afterwards. As with the modular principle you can match different...”
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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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