Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art

Overview

“In the last lesson, we started the sketching process by doing some warm-up exercises and looking at references to center the mind. Now, it’s time to start developing your creative sparks into characters. A good way to get to know your characters better is to draw them in routine situations. Let me show you how I do this!”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Sketching 2, 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

“ Sketching To know your character better, it's great to draw it doing routinely stuff. The scene is not important to us, but the time when a character is all by itself and we can truly see how it is. Try to imagine what kind of routine your character might have. For example, how does he drink tea? Would he hold his cup like this? Or maybe he could turn his finger like this? Or maybe he warms himself up with his tea? Or maybe he's relaxing? Through these positions, you can see the real character. I'd like to show you how I'd develop a routine for one of my characters, granny. Granny of Litt...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 7 units
• 98 lessons (18h 23m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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