Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children
Texture: Depth, Shadows, and Transitions
A course by Anna Süßbauer , Illustrator
About the video: Texture: Depth, Shadows, and Transitions
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll look at the flavoring that gives your basic ingredient, the shapes, that certain something: the texture. This gives infinite possibilities to add depth, shadows and transitions and create the analog feel. ”
In this video lesson Anna Süßbauer addresses the topic: Texture: Depth, Shadows, and Transitions, 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
“Texture: depth, shadows and transitions Lastly, we looked at the combination of shapes and lines. This lesson is about texture for your shapes. Let's start. I'll show you my favorite way apply texture and we will use it on our characters. Before that I want to go through the possibilities to create texture. Texture or structure is the spice to your basic ingredients. It makes your characters interesting. She gives them depth, makes them mysterious, can guide the viewer's gaze, can create shades, gradients and layers and is easy to apply. Texture comes from analogue painting through the appl...”
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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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