Dynamic Character Illustration

Overview

“It's finally time to start drawing! In this lesson, we'll only focus on the pose while combining all the techniques I've shown so far. We'll also use our mood board from the previous lesson for inspiration and as a reference.”

In this video lesson Thomas Rohlfs addresses the topic: Sketching (part 1): The Pose 1, 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

“Sketching 01 The Pose Now we'll combine many of the techniques that we've learned so far. We'll use our mood board as inspiration and, of course, for reference. We'll do two rounds of sketches. First, we'll focus on the pose, then we'll draw our clothes, and in the end you should have a clear sketch of your character. Let's take a look. Let's create a new document in Photoshop. Go to File, New. Click on Name. And for the dimensions, I'm going to stick to a kind of small canvas. Like I told you about in the Photoshop set up lesson, for sketching, I find it easier to use a smaller canvas. I'm...”

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Course summary for: Dynamic Character Illustration

• Level: Beginner
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• 12546 students
• 4 units
• 32 lessons (7h 0m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

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