Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration

Overview

“Understand that this process is long and requires you to be constantly working on paper (or in Photoshop, if you feel more comfortable) testing other gestures, expressions, composition ideas, among others, to make sure it's the best idea that goes be in your book. In this second part of the class, I will show my process in digital format.”

In this video lesson Daniel Wu addresses the topic: The Precious Thumbnails 2, 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

“the precious thumbnails That thumbnail moment, although it looks like a child's drawing, it's all kind of loose and uncommitted, in fact, it is a very important moment. Here is something really rough, just to see how the scene is divided, if the character fits here, if the main lines are leading where you want them to lead, if you can have any more ideas, just to flow. After that, we'll get the ones that work, scan and elaborate better, make a more beautiful and cute drawing. For now, this is just a draft. Here, for example, this last one I made, After all these studies, I'm putting togethe...”

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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