Drawing with photoshop

• Drawing characters, settings
• Shading
• Coloring

For instance, thumbnail sketches of digital drawings are imported to Photoshop. 15 pages are added to a Kwik project. Ready to make final sketches with Photoshop.

From how To Illustrate Children’s Books - Will Terry

Storytelling with pictures about graphic Design

keep it simple

• No wacky type fonts
• simple legible is better

mind the volume of manuscripts and the area of illustrations

• keep the same size type of font throughout your book

You need to balance the text area and the illustrations

• reduce the size of text
• reduce the size of illustrated areas, leaving more room for type
• reduce the number of illustrations
• edit manuscript so there is effectively less text per page

What is the mood of your story?

• dark on light or light on dark
• value your color/look like before illustration

Using emotion to tell the story

• observe your facial expression with a mirror
• don’t take the easy way out and copy popular kitschy emotion in shorthand
• happy, cheeks are important
• sad, frown eyelid, slant eyebrows
• excited, teeth
• scared huge eyes and dilated pupils
• angry
• bored
• hopefully looking for something to happen
• sleepy
• love struck
• confident
• sick
• mischieve

Illustrating actions

• Going beyond the text, imagine what text does not describe - props
• Using a different camera angle
• Lighting for impact, light is a safe area in dark scene

Character designs

make a little note about the following specification - features

• Character’s shape
• Personality
• Description
• Abilities

get references and draw your characters for your final sketches

Animation

RMIT University - School of Media and Communication

• http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/aim/a_notes/anim_contents.html

From Notes,

• Disney’s Principles of Animation
• Pose to Pose Animation Technique
• In betweens
• Cyclic Animation

From Projects,

• Cut Outs - Straight Ahead Animation
• Walk Cycle - Character Animation