Guided project: Character Creation for Illustrated Stories
What world does our character inhabit?
A guided course by Valentina Toro , Illustrator and Writer
About the video: What world does our character inhabit?
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll take a close look at everything that makes up and gives life to our character's world.”
In this video lesson Valentina Toro addresses the topic: What world does our character inhabit?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided project: Character Creation for Illustrated Stories. Create characters with unique souls for enlightened stories. .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson. we will delve deeply into all the elements that form our character's world and start the scene for our final project. Come along with me! In addition to shaping our character. it's crucial to consider the objects that will accompany them and envision how their world appears. based on all the details you've considered about them. considering their attire. deduce the era they belong to. and the type of world they inhabit. whether it's a fantastical realm or a more realistic setting. based on these clues. if they live in a fictitious place... These questions prompt us to ponder...”
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Course summary for: Guided project: Character Creation for Illustrated Stories
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Category
Illustration, Writing -
Areas
Character Design, Drawing, Editorial Design, Fiction Writing, Storyboard
Valentina Toro
A guided course by Valentina Toro
Valentina Toro is an illustrator and writer with a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia. Her work revolves around her fascination with the unknown and the secret worlds that can only be discovered in books.
Over the course of her career, she has published seven books, five of which are children’s books. Her style can be described as a blend of textual narration with images that create universes inhabited by both forms of expression. She has also written three novels and done illustrations for other authors. She was a runner up in the Little Hakka Picture Book Competition in China and is currently represented internationally by Advocate-Art Inc.
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