Illustration and Character Design for Children’s Stories
From the eye to the stroke
A course by Teresa Martínez , Illustrator
About the video: From the eye to the stroke
Overview
“Now you will see how I exercise the observation on a daily basis; It is not about drawing a perfect drawing, but about capturing the action in a few lines and doing it in a loose way. That will stay in your mental image bank that you can use later when you are working formally. It also serves to take notes of details, features and forms that you can use later in your characters. ”
In this video lesson Teresa Martínez addresses the topic: From the eye to the stroke, 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
“From the Eye to the Stroke Live portraiture is a basic exercise for any artist. It forces us to capture a line of movement, a pose, and keep it in our heads to then portray it. Fixed Pose I'm going to draw a blue line to mark the basic lines of the skeleton. As you can see, I've made a line down the middle. That's my line of action. We have to be able to work fast so that our wrist loosens up and to strengthen our memory of the figure that we're portraying. OK. You can see that I captured the components and the basic shapes of her body and I haven't used too much detail. The only thing you'...”
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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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