Illustration and Character Design for Children’s Stories
Children and animals
A course by Teresa Martínez , Illustrator
About the video: Children and animals
Overview
“Drawing children is not easy, however, it is important that you know how to do it if you are going to work in the children's field; There are few projects I have worked on that do not include a child or an animal. So here I am going to give you some guidelines so that you can do it effectively. I will show you how the structure of the human body and its features works, as well as the animal figure and how to integrate both characters.”
In this video lesson Teresa Martínez addresses the topic: Children and animals, 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
“Children and Animals There are three kinds of main characters that can show up in a children's story. Those are children, animals, and inanimate objects that come to life. So now I want to demonstrate some basics for drawing children and animals because once you understand them, animating inanimate objects is relatively simple. And why is it so hard to draw children? Because their proportions vary a bit from adults and I'll explain that to you as we carry on. You'll see right away I've already made some skeletons here and I did that for two reasons. First, because I'll be zooming in and zoo...”
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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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