Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration
Putting Your Special Touch on History
A course by Daniel Wu , Illustrator
About the video: Putting Your Special Touch on History
Overview
“I know you're in the mood to grab the pencil and paper and start drawing. But before that, we need to understand the story we want to tell. We need to read and analyze the text we are going to work with and interpret what it means to us. I also think it essential to do research on the origins of this story and understand what other people think about this same text. This can clarify and even inspire. After compiling all this information, think: What does this story mean to me? What is my interpretation? What can I add to it? What characteristics of my personality, my hobbies, my life background, can make my version become original? But it doesn't cover either! Not everything needs to have a super complex message behind it, or be something revolutionary. However, I'm sure that by doing this exercise, you'll be able to do a combination of unusual things that can be very interesting. ”
In this video lesson Daniel Wu addresses the topic: Putting Your Special Touch on History, which is part of the Domestika online course: Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration. Learn to use the power of storytelling to illustrate children's books in your own style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Putting Your Special Touch on History In this class now, we will see how to interpret the text and how we are going to transform this story told for centuries and centuries to a lot of people in a story unique and exclusively yours. Let's start with you having received the text. It could have been received from the customer or it could be a text you chose. Let's take the text and the first thing people usually do is: "I'll draw it, it's the story of the turtle, I'll make a cute turtle or a cute hare". That's what they do. You, who are taking this course, from now on, will pick up the text, ...”
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Course summary for: Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Daniel Wu
A course by Daniel Wu
Daniel Wu is a Brazilian illustrator focused on the publishing market. He has been passionate about the storytelling power of images since he was young. After graduating in social communication, he worked in several areas before making his dream of working in illustration a reality.
His expressive and humorous style has seen him collaborate with major publishers and publications such as FTD, Abril, and Storytime Magazine, as well as international brands including Faber-Castell, Avon, and PepsiCo. In 2021, he published his own version of the classic Little Red Riding Hood with Bamboozinho.
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