About the video: Characters, Setting, and Storytelling 1
Overview
“Together we’ll be creating a character, setting and story that we can use to create several starting illustrations for your portfolio in the next unit. ”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Characters, Setting, and Storytelling 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
“ Characters, Setting and Storytelling In the last lesson, we went over the elements that we'll need for our portfolio. In this lesson, we will create a list of stories, characters, and settings that we'll use for the rest of the course. Here I have my handy-dandy notebook that we'll use to create our list today. We'll just go ahead and get started. I like using this notebook to make my list because if I have computer paper or something larger, I tend to go all over the place, which is great for sketching, but not great for list-making. I like something a bit smaller. You may be asking me, ...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Gouache Painting, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration

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