Illustration and Character Design for Children’s Stories
Face and expressions
A course by Teresa Martínez , Illustrator
About the video: Face and expressions
Overview
“The face is undoubtedly the most important part of our character; It tells us stories like their age, emotions, race, culture, etc. We all know the most basic expressions: a curved upward line is a smile, two diagonal eyebrows can be an expression of anger, etc. But how does our character smile? And when he is sad? ”
In this video lesson Teresa Martínez addresses the topic: Face and expressions, 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
“Faces and Expressions The face is the most important part of our character because it's where we'll look first and it provides us with a lot of information. Let's get to work on the facial proportions of our character and on a number of details that convey information, such as expressions. How they smile, get angry, and get sad. Join me to see how I do it with my character. I've made a new document just to work on Dorothy's face. I'd like to draw some expressions, some gestures, and also start to detail all of her facial features. I'll keep working with this brush, and I'll just decrease th...”
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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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