World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration
Refining the Characters and Their Interaction
A course by Ben Newman , Illustrator
About the video: Refining the Characters and Their Interaction
Overview
“Now you will learn to develop the interactions happening in the scene. I will share with you my best tips and tricks to make it happen. ”
In this video lesson Ben Newman addresses the topic: Refining the Characters and Their Interaction, 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 be solidifying our characters and their interactions into the location and setting. Currently, the characters and their interactions look a little collaged in, and they don't look like they were sort of designed at the same time as the location. So what we're going to do now is we're going to go in and try and clean up those character designs and those interactions and make them feel like they were all designed as part of the background all at the same time and knit those things together basically. So let's put those digital goggles on and get back into Photos...”
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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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