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Create Storytelling Illustrations from A to Z

Name: Create Storytelling Illustrations from A to Z
Rating: 4.5 (78 reviews)

Learn how to design and paint illustrations that will tell more than thousand words and become a great illustrator

Created byMaria Avramova

Last updated 3/2022

English

What you'll learn

- How to design characters in different styles
- Designing other characters and elements within your chosen style
- How to find to make your characters appealing
- Good vs Bad characters - what attributes help your design to convey a better idea to your viewers
- The rules of composition - The Golden Ratio
- Wnat is a Foreground and a Background and how you can use them to tell a better story through your illustration
- Painting two styles of illustration - specifics
- Finding the storytelling elements
- The power of colors
- Painting in watercolor
- Broad strokes vs details

Course content

7 sections • 31 lectures • 7h 44m total length

Materials13:24
What do you need for this course, what do we want to achieve.

Designing Little Red Riding Hood - Design 115:35
How to start designing your character when you are at the beginning of your process.
Little Red Riding Hood - Design 26:51
There is not only one way of designing your character. In fact, you need to try out several approaches before you go ahead and choose a design. Learn another, more simplified way of designing.
Little Red Riding Hood - Design 36:49
Learn even a simpler design. Here we go one step further in how to make your design process easier.
Little Red Riding Hood - Design 417:02
In this lecture, you will learn how to challenge yourself and create a more advanced design for the girl.
Getting to know your character - Poses, Part 124:30
Before you start the illustration you need to "get to know your character". Here you will learn how to explore your character design and how the character looks in different poses and emotions.
Getting to know your character - Poses, Part 210:22

Pencil Drawing17:47
How to start your illustration and draft your characters.
Refining The Drawing19:23
You will learn how to refine your drawing before you start painting.
Warm and Cold Color Palette5:00
Painting - Part 118:17
How to start painting.
Painting - Part 219:50
Learn how to gradually paint the background and the foreground. How to choose colors and create contrasts.
Painting - Part 320:02
Adding details. How to avoid spilling color and how to choose which color to add next.
Painting - Part 426:39
How to paint the characters?
Painting - Part 520:42
Finalizing your painting. Last touches.

Creating a different design for the Wolf16:30
How you go about designing a more complex kind of character design of the Wolf?
Practising to draw the Wolf in a pose19:11
Learn how can you take the design you´ve created and explore a pose that you can later use in your illustration.
Posing the Girl17:03
Learn how to draw your advanced character in a pose that you will use in your illustration later.
Draft the Composition5:07
Learn how to draw a sketch of your composition and distribute the elements in the right places before you start drawing the original.
Start the Illustration16:01
Now you´ve practiced designing your characters, let´s start sketching the illustration here.
Drawing the Girl10:58
Start Painting30:16
Learn how to go about painting this new style of illustration.
Painting the Second Illustration16:52
How to paint details of the characters.
Adding last details12:58
How to finalize the illustration with a different design and what to think about.

Requirements

Pen and paper
Watercolor
Color pencils

Description

So you´ve been drawing and painting since you were a little kid, but you kind of never seem to know where and how to put the next brushstroke to create amazing illustrations. You´ve been frustrated and everything that you´ve tried has been just too hard to understand.

If they're just a lesson that could explain everything in a simple way so that you could use your creativity without hesitation? If there was a course that could teach you how to trust your creative intuition (Yes, you do have one)?

Well, wait no more.

In this set of lectures, I will be guiding you step by step in how to design, compose, paint and refine an illustration that will tell a story at the first glance. Whether you want to become a book illustrator or you want to put a brilliant painting on your wall, you will learn everything you need to know here.

And I´m not going to show you just one way of doing it. We have vast capacities within us and many designs. I will show you how you can explore your creativity and how you can approach the design process for each style.

So what will you learn here:

- How to design different styles of characters

- How to choose the right design for your capability and liking

- Design other characters and environment suitable for the first design.

- What is a composition

- Creating a well-balanced composition

- How to use storytelling when making decisions for your illustration

- Use emotions to tell a story

- Color Palette

- How to paint with watercolor

- Use different methods to paint and create a variety of design styles

The sooner you start the better you will become. I´ll see you inside this course.

Who this course is for:

Beginners

Create Storytelling Illustrations from A to Z

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 13min

DESIGNS OF THE LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD6 lectures • 1hr 21min

DESIGNING THE WOLF3 lectures • 40min

Designing The Environment1 lecture • 11min

Composition3 lectures • 26min

Illustration 18 lectures • 2hr 28min

Illustration 2 - A different style9 lectures • 2hr 25min

Requirements

Description

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