Dynamic Character Illustration
Influences
A course by Thomas Rohlfs , Illustrator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I'll show you some of my first drawings and the different drawing styles I developed throughout the years. Believe me, I've worked in A LOT of different styles before I got to where I am today. It's been a 15-year long creative journey!”
In this video lesson Thomas Rohlfs addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dynamic Character Illustration. Learn professional drawing and coloring techniques for creating animated characters full of movement.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson I'll show you some of my very first drawings. Also I'll show you the styles that I've developed over the years. These are illustrations I made before I had a tablet, I scanned in all my illustrations and that was it. You can see I already drew characters, although not lifelike and in some very weird ways. As you can see, my work was a little bit dark back then. Let's have a look. Here I was already drawing characters, but there was no anatomy yet. Around this time, I was basically only using very simple shapes to create my characters, like I see a circle here and t...”
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Course summary for: Dynamic Character Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Comic, Creativity, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Manga, Traditional illustration

Thomas Rohlfs
A course by Thomas Rohlfs
Inspired by street fashion, comics, old school tattoos, and his trips to the Far East, Thomas Rohlf’s work consists of confident lines, minimal color palettes, and dynamic characters. During his career as an illustrator, the Amsterdam-based creator has collaborated with a wide range of brands and studios, including AKQA, Wired, Ueno, New Scientist, and Mathematic.
In conjunction with his illustration work, Thomas also runs a small print shop from his Amsterdam studio where he creates beautiful giclée fine art prints.
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