Children’s Illustration Specialization: From Sketchbook to Digital Art

Overview

“Go back to the main idea from your mind map. It’s time to create compositional thumbnails. Try to fill a page with thumbnails. The more you, do the better your final product. Pick your strongest thumbnails and create more detailed rough sketches. Sketching with value is helpful here to balance your lights, darks, and mid-tones. Pick your favorite rough sketch! Dig deep; often, the first idea isn’t the best. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Thumbnailing and Sketching Your Final Piece, 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 and Sketching Your Final Piece We've finished exercises in composition. In this lesson, we'll begin thumbnailing and sketching for the final project. We'll begin pulling from everything we've done so far. Bear in mind what you looked at in the exercise previously when you were sketching from a film still. Now we'll create our thumbnails for the final project. Remember you did a mind map and came up with an idea for a scene. Draw little boxes, rectangles. They don't have to be perfect. I'll draw six to start. I'll quickly thumbnail ideas here. This is only for composition. This ...”

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

• Level: Beginner
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• 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