Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children

The Layout and the Sketch

A course by Anna Süßbauer , Illustrator

98% positive reviews (49)

1,117 students

Audio: German

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About the video: The Layout and the Sketch

Overview

“In this lesson, I'll show you how to plan the layout for your project and create a rough sketch for it.”

In this video lesson Anna Süßbauer addresses the topic: The Layout and the Sketch, 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

“The layout and the sketch In the last lesson we have found and worked out what is special in the figures. In this lesson we will plan the sketch for your graduation project. let's get started In the previous lessons you made shapes, lines, texture and details created some figures, which you can place all together on your poster. For this you can roughly sketch the layout of your poster, so that you can get a good overview of where which character could be placed, so that a coherent overall picture emerges. In our case we have already produced many figures, that we can use. In other cases yo...”

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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

Anna Süßbauer

A course by Anna Süßbauer

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Illustrator

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.