Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art

Overview

“Look at things from another perspective and think about what the story demands without focusing on detail. This is all about tests, trial, and error.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Thumbnailing 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

“Thumbnailing We learned about composition. I'll to teach you how to incorporate it into the creation of your thumbnails. The first thing that we need is to create the rectangles that we're gonna use to frame our illustrations. I'm gonna draw some rectangles and I won't be too polished because it doesn't matter. I wanna create something focusing on the composition and all the tools I gave you so that you can guide the eye of the viewer to the main subject. I'm drawing very small rectangles because I don't want to focus on detail yet, I wanna focus on composition. I'm gonna start on the first...”

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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)
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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