World Building & Compositional Techniques for Illustration
Patient Changes
A course by Ben Newman , Illustrator
About the video: Patient Changes
Overview
“Next, you will learn about the value of living with your image for a few days and then go back and look to see if there are any further amends you want to make. ”
In this video lesson Ben Newman addresses the topic: Patient Changes, 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
“One thing I've learned from making children's books is that quite often I make a spread and months later, after I feel like I've finished with it, I have to revisit it to make some further changes. Upon returning to these spreads, I quite often find things that I'm not quite happy with and I wish I had done differently at the time. So I use this opportunity to make those changes. So in some ways, the process of making a children's book has enforced some sort of patience on me when it comes to creating images. In this lesson, we're going to look back over the image that we've made after we'v...”
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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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