Dynamic Character Illustration

Overview

“In this lesson, I'll show you four techniques that are at the heart of my process. It will help you add movement to your characters, even when they're not in a very active pose. You might think you'll need to know a lot about human anatomy, but this is not the case at all! I've got my light table set up. Let's do this! ”

In this video lesson Thomas Rohlfs addresses the topic: Drawing Techniques (part 1): Dynamic Characters and Movement, 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

“Drawing Techniques 01 Dynamic Character and Movement In this lesson we'll see how to draw dynamic looking characters, even when they're not in a very active pose. You might think you need to know a lot about anatomy to draw a dynamic looking character, but actually you don't really. I'll show you four techniques to draw dynamic looking characters. I have a light table here and I will use some of my old work and some tracing paper to show you these techniques. If you don't have a light table, don't worry, you can use tracing paper. So let's go ahead. And I will use a little paper clip to att...”

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Course summary for: Dynamic Character Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (502)
• 12546 students
• 4 units
• 32 lessons (7h 0m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Comic, Creativity, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Manga, Traditional illustration