Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration

Overview

“The Hare is bold, agile and arrogant but also funny and non-aggressive. The Turtle is slow, naive and passive but also cute, humble and persevering. Now that we know our protagonists in depth and we know how we can use three basic shapes to help us in the visual representation of their personality, let's apply our knowledge in building the characters and giving them shape and life. ”

In this video lesson Daniel Wu addresses the topic: Character design: putting it into practice 1, 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

“Character design: putting it into practice Now, we're going to take everything we've heard about character design, the ways we talked, and we are going to see the hare, my character in this book, being born here. I know the hare is kind of arrogant, he's kind of classy. The character's story also has this thing about her agility, she is fast so, I already know here that I'm going to use the triangle, that passes so much this agility and speed how much is also used for more insightful and somewhat treacherous characters, which has a bit of that hare personality. Instead of making a super flu...”

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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