Specialization in Creative Writing and Children's Illustration

Overview

“In this lesson I'm going to combine what I taught you about drawing with basic shapes with the information from my mood board to create a human character and his imaginary friend. I'll show you how, after creating my basic structure, I add details until I have a first version of my characters. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: First sketches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Creative Writing and Children's Illustration . Write captivating children's books by exploring narrative techniques and age-appropriate language for young readers..

Partial transcription of the video

“In the last unit, I showed you some skeletons I made for characters, thinking three-dimensionally, some possibilities I had for characters that could be the girl in my project, or a boy and his imaginary friend. Now I'm going to show you the next step of creating the sketch of my character based on these little skeletons. So I'm going to take one of these, I'm going to remove the opacity from this layer, and I'm going to use this as a base to build a new character. Now I can start adding details to this, like what kind of eyes I would like to add, or do some nose -style tests. If you look, ...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Creative Writing and Children's Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (38)
• 4195 students
• 6 units
• 70 lessons (14h 37m)
• 38 downloads

• Category

  Illustration, Writing

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Content Writing, Creative Writing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Picturebook, Writing