World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration
Characters
A course by Ben Newman , Illustrator
About the video: Characters
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn to compose and integrate the characters and their actions into a more detailed location sketch. ”
In this video lesson Ben Newman addresses the topic: Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration. Learn to create visual worlds for your characters and ideas to live in by exploring simple, graphical techniques and digital tools..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to integrate our characters and their interactions into our detailed sketch. This is a really fun stage because we kind of get to interact with this location as well as the characters. So any ideas that we've written down beforehand, we get to remain kind of fluid, and when placing them into the image, we can kind of change and adapt what's happening with what's in front of us. So let's dive back into Photoshop and see what we can do. This sketch of the composition is now at a stage where we can start adding the characters and the interactions in. This isn't a so...”
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Course summary for: World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Ben Newman
A course by Ben Newman
Ben Newman is a freelance illustrator based in the UK. He has worked with the likes of the New Yorker, Apple, BBC, and Google - but his true passion lies in illustrating children’s books and games. Inspired by children’s space books he flipped through while working in a bookshop, he co-created a book series with his friend, Dr. Dominic Walliman, called Professor Astro Cat. It has since been translated into 28 languages and has been turned into spin-off series for different age groups. He has also written two books inspired by his sons — the sounds Wilbur made to imitate crocodiles motivated him to write Snip Snap, while Rumble Tumble was inspired by Ernie’s frequent accidents while learning to walk.
Growing up, Ben loved watching Pink Panther and Tom & Jerry reruns on television and reading American Superhero comics. Those references have stuck with him throughout his career and he hopes his characters and worlds will be passed down to the next generation in the same way.
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