Design and Creation of an Art Toy: From Person to Character
What will we do in the course?
A course by Luaiso Lopez , Graphic Designer
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“In this course I will teach you to create an Art Toy taking a person as a reference. We will see how to choose the model, what characteristics will facilitate our work and which ones would complicate it. We will make a sketch giving the piece that we are going to make with shape and style. Then, we will build the Art Toy step by step, from the skeleton to the final finish, with room to explore and let creativity flow. For this course I am going to ask you to let your creativity fly and not stick to an idea, but to evolve through your work. ”
In this video lesson Luaiso Lopez addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Creation of an Art Toy: From Person to Character. Learn how to capture the characteristics of a person and bring them to life in a 3D character.
Partial transcription of the video
“What will we do in the course? In this lesson I will talk about what we will do in the course. The first thing will be to look for references of the art toy that we will make. We will see which ones suit us and which ones are not. After this we will move on to the design and sketching for the style and how we want to do it. Then we will start with the wire to make a skeleton and from there build the volume and create the entire figure. We will see tricks, details, forms, we will see how to sand, which is very important. I warn you from now on, the sanding take it with patience. The more wor...”
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Course summary for: Design and Creation of an Art Toy: From Person to Character
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Category
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Areas
Art Toys, Character Design, Sculpture, Toy Design
Luaiso Lopez
A course by Luaiso Lopez
Born in Alicante, Spain, Luaiso López is a graduate in graphic design at Espai Grafic and in desktop publishing at EASDA. He then started illustrating professionally and created his first collection of sculptures in 2014.
His first limited edition Zombie Mario sold out a few weeks after it was released in Singapore with Pobber Toys. He has participated in various exhibitions and has created Art Toy work for Museo TOPIC in Guipúzcoa, in collaboration with Kram. He designed a Zombie Popeye for Medialink for the character’s 90th anniversary. He was awarded the Contemporary Art Prize “Propuestas” in 2011 for his work as a photographer and illustrator.
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