Dynamic Character Illustration

Overview

“I love researching characters. This is where I get inspired and where my creative juices start flowing! So put on some nice music (you can use my playlist), and let's get to it! In this lesson, we'll create a mood board for our character. We'll look up references for our characters' pose, outfit, and accessories. When you're done, you will have a clear idea of what your character is all about and a mood board to fall back on. ”

In this video lesson Thomas Rohlfs addresses the topic: Researching Your Character, 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

“Researching Your Character Now we'll create a mood board for our characters. We'll look up references for our character's pose, clothing and accessories. After this lesson you'll have a clear idea about your character and a mood board to fall back on. It's a fun way to build our character, so let's go. Before drawing the character, I usually spend a lot of time looking for references. It's really tough to draw without reference images and it's also fun to construct our character this way. We want to draw a dynamic character that appears to be moving. Remember the lessons from unit two, wher...”

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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