Illustration and Character Design for Children’s Stories
The ability to observe
A course by Teresa Martínez , Illustrator
About the video: The ability to observe
Overview
“I want to start by showing you a very important exercise to improve observation. It's about looking for shapes in everyday objects and trying to give them another interpretation based on their outline.”
In this video lesson Teresa Martínez addresses the topic: The ability to observe, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration and Character Design for Children’s Stories. Learn new digital drawing techniques and create evocative characters.
Partial transcription of the video
“Observational Skills We're going to start making our first strokes and I'd first like to show you a series of exercises so you learn to develop your observation and creativity. They're very simple exercises that you can practice every day at any time and you don't need lots of stuff either. You could even do it with a notebook and pencil. But right now I'll do it on a computer so you can see it better. What do we have here? This is a series of everyday objects that I found in my house and photographed because I liked their shapes, they're very peculiar, like each of them has a distinct pers...”
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Course summary for: Illustration and Character Design for Children’s Stories
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Narrative, Traditional illustration
Teresa Martínez
A course by Teresa Martínez
Teresa started out in illustration at a young age, publishing comics independently as well as in a local daily newspaper. She later studied to be a graphic designer but never stopped incorporating illustrations into her projects. In 2002 she started working in the editorial industry and published pieces with Richmond, Editorial SM, Castillo, Edebé, Alfaguara, and CONACULTA.
With more than 25 years' experience in the field of illustration, she has had numerous opportunities in the audiovisual world, seeing her illustrations appear in the short Imaginantes as well as internationally. Some of her pieces, including Swan Lake, Fábulas Mexicanas, Arthur and the Sword in the Stone, and Fantastic Body, have been published in England, France, Spain, Brazil, and the United States.
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