Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
Drawing with basic shapes
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz, Illustrator
About the video: Drawing with basic shapes
Overview
“Now I will teach you to create characters, human and not so human, from simple figures. I'll explain how, when you combine variations of sizes and shapes, your characters look more diverse. Finally, I will create a template with characters to serve as an example to start making your own combinations.”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Drawing with basic shapes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate. Learn how to tell stories and convey emotions through children's illustration with your iPad.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson. i'm going to talk to you a bit about Exploring how I create characters with basic shapes. when I access my settings menu. and select the canvas option Can I add a drawing guide? By selecting Add Drawing Guide. a default grid appears. I'm going to click edit here to customize it further. adjusting its settings as needed. Drawing Guide. Here I decide on the next steps. the size of frames I want. I'm accustomed to working with specific dimensions for my projects. Since I usually work with specific dimensions and don't know the exact size of a pixel. i'll adjust the To... point ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Characters for Children's Stories with Procreate
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Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Jimena S. Sarquiz
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz
Jimena S. Sarquiz is a freelance illustrator specializing in the illustration of books for children and young people. During her career, she has had the opportunity to illustrate books for different publishers in Mexico, the United States, and Europe, as well as different magazines from Editorial Televisa (Mexico). In 2010, she illustrated her first children's book. Since then, she has illustrated ten more, mostly for publishers in Mexico.
Jimena is an active participant in comic events and design fairs, where she sells her illustrations. Her work can be found on social media under the name Monitos Bonitos.
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