Female Character Design for Comics
Costumes
A course by Marcio Takara , Comic Book Artist
About the video: Costumes
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk about how costumes and clothes can be used as an element for your composition. Also how it can add personality to your character, while paying attention to the shapes, light and shadow.”
In this video lesson Marcio Takara addresses the topic: Costumes, 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 me show you how I draw the costumes. I'm just going to erase what I put before. But not too much so I know what's going on. I'm going to fix the year a little bit here. It's not level the way you should be. This has to follow the direction of the eyebrow and the nose. Let me erase the belt and the shoes. So let's start drawing the jacket. It has this Specific shape. gonna have buttons here This is going to be a black leather jacket. You can add black areas under the arm. in the folds. will have bigger black masses. This could be the shadow of the head. You cast shadow here...”
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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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