Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art

Overview

“In this lesson, I will focus on cleaning the lines of our thumbnails. The best way to make a compelling drawing is to keep track of the details that make it recognizable.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Sketch 1, 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

“Sketch It's time to digitize our thumbnails. I'm going to teach you how to go from a rough stage to your final sketch. I usually work on layers on this part of the process because this allows me to not focus so much on perfecting the lines, but on making sure I include all the elements that will be in my composition, down to some details. Let's see how that works. I've already imported my thumbnail. I'm gonna click on it and I'm gonna change the size of the canvas to adjust it to the settings that I want. This is quite big. I normally, when creating an illustration for screen, do double the...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 1475 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