Creative Lab: Illustrate Characters for Children

Adding Details and Elements

A course by Anna Süßbauer , Illustrator

98% positive reviews (49)

1,117 students

Audio: German

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About the video: Adding Details and Elements

Overview

“Everything your poster is missing you can add in this step: details, shadows and elements of interaction between the characters. ”

In this video lesson Anna Süßbauer addresses the topic: Adding Details and Elements, 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

“Add details and elements In the last lesson we placed the figures on your poster. In this lesson we will add details and create transitions. Everything your poster is missing now, you can add at the end. details or interactions between your characters, shadow or if you want also shifts within the poster. I now have according to our sketch added another tree and here I still lack some liveliness for this tree. So I'm going to add a few more little characters here. For this I show this layer again with the colors, I need that again now. I'm going to put some smaller birds in the tree and of c...”

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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.