Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art

Overview

“I will talk to you about children’s book illustrators that I love, and I will tell you why their illustrations and books work so well and how they’ve influenced my illustration style. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Influences / Marissa Valdez, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art. Explore sketchbook techniques for creating characters, settings, and narratives in children's book illustrations.

Partial transcription of the video

“In the last lesson, i talked all about myself. In this lesson, I'm going to talk about my influences and inspirations. I have this book, I Want My Hat Back by John Klassen. It's one of my all time favorite picture books. So it's a huge inspiration. I love John Klassen because he's a master children's illustrator designer, and he's got an amazing sense of humor, to the point where no matter how many times I read this book, I will laugh. As you can see, his character design and his background design It's all very simple, but it really gets the point across very quickly. You understand the sto...”

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Course summary for: Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art

• Level: Beginner
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• 1476 students
• 7 units
• 98 lessons (18h 23m)
• 46 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Gouache Painting, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration