Female Character Design for Comics
Picking Reference
A course by Marcio Takara , Comic Book Artist
About the video: Picking Reference
Overview
“It’s always a good idea to take some time to pick reference pictures for your projects. I will show how I usually do this by choosing pictures from websites like Pinterest and Google Images. ”
In this video lesson Marcio Takara addresses the topic: Picking Reference, which is part of the Domestika online course: Female Character Design for Comics. Learn the traditional techniques to draw a female figure with volume, movement, balance, and expression from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Picking Reference Now I'm gonna show you how I choose and pick references. Usually I go to the Web on Google Images or Pinterest, sites like that. I use my own hands, you know, looking at the mirror or using the webcam because you are not gonna be able to draw everything from your mind, so it's good to look for reference whenever you need to draw cars or horses or animals in general. So let's have a look and see how I usually do it. I'll go to Safari, let's go to Google. Let me try to find some hair pictures. You go to Images and you search for something, I found this one. So I'll press Con...”
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Course summary for: Female Character Design for Comics
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Comic, Drawing

Marcio Takara
A course by Marcio Takara
Marcio Takara is a comic book artist who has lived in Toronto and Rio de Janeiro over the years and has worked on comics for Marvel and DC, mostly. He used to be a graphic designer but made the switch to working with comics in 2006.
He has done work for videogames, ad agencies, and toy companies but spends most of his time working with comics for Marvel and DC, doing the covers and interior art for the books. Some of his most recent works include Detective Comics, Nightwing, Birds of Prey, and Hellblazer for DC Comics; and Captain Marvel, All-New Wolverine, Jessica Jones, and Wolverine for Marvel Comics.
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