Illustration and Character Design for Children’s Stories
Concepts to consider
A course by Teresa Martínez , Illustrator
About the video: Concepts to consider
Overview
“Now I want to give you the initial theory of how to compose a good character for a children's book. To do this, we must keep in mind concepts such as balance, cartoon, line, proportion, shapes, silhouette, faces, etc. I will show you by drawing a modern version of The Wizard of Oz .”
In this video lesson Teresa Martínez addresses the topic: Concepts to consider, 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
“Concepts to Keep in Mind We've drawn enough now. So settle in and pay good attention because I'm going to show you the basic concepts and theory to create a character that's more solid, consistent, and believable to your reader. So let's go. I've done some very basic drawings to demonstrate this in a very direct, simple way. Let's take a look. The first concept I want to bring up is the form. The form is the shape with which one can more easily identify our character. To start, I've made three shapes here. They're relatively simple and easily identifiable. Here's a square, then there's a ci...”
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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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