Characters and Settings for Children's Story Illustration
This was just the beginning!
A course by Daniel Wu , Illustrator
About the video: This was just the beginning!
Overview
“The time has come to present my completely finished project. I was very happy with the result! I don't just say it for the aesthetics but also for how I built my story by putting my characteristics into it, and I even made a super fun version! In the end, I accomplished my goal and when I look at this project, I see how much of me is in it. And even better is the feeling of having a project finished, completed, to cheer us up and encourage us to continue creating even more and exploring our possibilities and limits. In this course, I chose a fable because it is a short story and would fit well into the eight pages I set out to do. Now: fly bird! Don't stop here! Look for other fables, fairy tales, literature or even your own story! Imagine how many stories are out there in the world waiting for your version! ”
In this video lesson Daniel Wu addresses the topic: This was just the beginning!, 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
“This was just the beginning! Now, we are in the last class, where I will finally show my whole project to you and then make the last comments. Are you ready to see my project? Here, the first page, remember the drafts and everything we did? Look here, finally, Caramelo all with the wig, the dress. Look how the lines lead the eye to her, she highlights. It has the darkest frame to give a nice contrast. her dress is red because it is quite opposed to blue, it contrasts well. Here, the duo of the tortoise and the hare without the costumes introducing himself, which I thought was really cute. H...”
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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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