The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art
Objects into characters
A course by Mattias Adolfsson , Illustrator
About the video: Objects into characters
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn how to turn objects into characters, starting with pens but then using other things. It’s a great way of developing personal looking characters.”
In this video lesson Mattias Adolfsson addresses the topic: Objects into characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art. Use your sketchbook to find your own drawing style and share it with others.
Partial transcription of the video
“OBJECTS INTO CHARACTERS In this lesson we'll start drawing some characters. We will start out with the materials from the last lesson and then continue making other objects into characters and then continue making characters. So I'm going to start by drawing a little pen. I will start with the most simple kind of pen, the traditional wooden pencil. Just by adding some eyes and some small legs we get a little character. And I can start with another pen beside him, this time turning the pencil around and see what happens. And when you're continuing doing this, starting to get a little sense a...”
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Course summary for: The Art of Sketching: Transform Your Doodles into Art
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Mattias Adolfsson
A course by Mattias Adolfsson
Mattias Adolfsson has been working as a freelance illustrator for over eleven years. While working as a graphic designer in the computer games industry, he started sharing his work on social media, where he began his successful career in illustration.
His long list of clients includes Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, and other important animation studios. He has also illustrated for magazines including The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times.
Mattias has created a variety of illustration work in areas like product design, for baby clothes brand Atelier Choux Paris, record sleeves, as well as an art commission for the largest hospital in Sweden.
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