Creating an Illustrated Brand: From the Idea to Merchandising

Overview

“We will start by looking at basic anatomy for our characters, it is important to know even a little the essential rules and then break them!”

In this video lesson Vania Bachur addresses the topic: Sketch 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating an Illustrated Brand: From the Idea to Merchandising. Develop an illustrated character and its visual identity to create your own product line.

Partial transcription of the video

“SKETCHING In our previous lesson, we learned how to find inspiration, we created our mood board, and we'll be using all the ideas we poured in it to start sketching. The main thing here is starting to break every anatomy rule possible. According to traditional anatomy, a human body should be eight heads tall. You get your full height by adding the size of your head eight times. Not the case with kawaii where we'll absolutely smash these rules. Let's start working on a couple of little anatomy exercises. Let's start with a couple of squares. Let's imagine this square equals 100% of the body ...”

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Course summary for: Creating an Illustrated Brand: From the Idea to Merchandising

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (720)
• 16070 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (2h 56m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration, Marketing & Business

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Branding & Identity, Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration