Drawing with photoshop
- Drawing characters, settings
- Shading
- Coloring
Thumbnail sketches from Adobe Sketch are exported to Photoshop and the 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 manuscript 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 size of text
- reduce size of illustrated area leaving more room for type
- reduce 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
- obseve your facial expression with mirror
- don’t take the easy way out and copy popular kitschy emotion short hand
- happy, cheek is important
- sad, frawn eylid, slant eyebrows
- excited, teeth
- scaredm huge eyes and dialeted puples
- angry
- bored
- hopefull looling for something to happen
- sleepy
- love struck
- confident
- sick
- mischieves
Illustrating actions
- Going beyond the text, imagine what text does not describe - props
- Using a different camera angle
- Lighting for impact, light is safe area in dark scene
Character designs
make a little notes about the following specification - features
- Character’s shape
- Personality
- Description
- Abilities
get reference and draw your characters for you final sketches
Animation
RMIT University - School of Media and Communication
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