Female Character Design for Comics
Hands - body expression
A course by Marcio Takara , Comic Book Artist
About the video: Hands - body expression
Overview
“In this lesson I will show how hands are important focal points on a figure. Also talking about feet and overall body expression.”
In this video lesson Marcio Takara addresses the topic: Hands - body expression, 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
“All right, so let's draw some hands now. I'm gonna use this picture here. Let me erase whatever I put here before. So here the arm is not following the position of the hand. I'm going to follow it just slightly. It's not going to look the same exactly. The hands can be tricky. Let me try to put the general shape first. We're going to have the thumb base here and the thumb has three parts. So one, two, three. This is going to be the finger that's showing. You're going to have the base of the hand right here connecting to the wrist. These are all the joints that you have to think about. But i...”
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Course summary for: Female Character Design for Comics
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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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