Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration

Overview

“There are those who think that the goal is to draw one day without having to use references for that. I think the use of references is important and essential to doing creative, robust, non-amateur work. I will share with you how the search for references was essential in the development of some of my work. And how to dive headfirst into each subject and seek as many references from different universes make non-obvious connections exist and maintain creativity. ”

In this video lesson Daniel Wu addresses the topic: Warming up creativity with the use of references, 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

“Warming up creativity with the use of references In this class, we will understand the importance of references and how to use them in our work. Just like when we went to write, we went looking for where the text came from, what is the artist's idea, talk to other people to see what they thought about the story, so that we can define and use all of this to elaborate our text, we will do practically the same thing with the graphic part, the aesthetic part. Instead of going straight to drawing, because he already has the idea ready in his head and knows how he wants his characters, great that...”

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Course summary for: Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (36)
• 1215 students
• 5 units
• 22 lessons (5h 24m)
• 19 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration