Dynamic Character Illustration

Overview

“By now, we should have a clear idea of the pose and outfit of our character. So in this lesson, we'll start rendering! We'll take our sketch, put it in a new document, and create all the linework. I'll show you how to create smooth and crisp lines that can be colored easily. This is a rather complex and long lesson, so I am dividing it into eight parts. Buckle up! ”

In this video lesson Thomas Rohlfs addresses the topic: Rendering 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

“Rendering Now we'll take our sketch, put it inside a new document and create all the line work. You'll learn to create smooth and crisp lines that can be colored easily. Let's take a look at it together. As you've probably seen, I render my characters using very clean line work. I'll show you how I do that in this lesson but feel free to render out your illustration anyway you like. You could try a more painted style or more abstract or a very detailed style. Now that the sketch is done, let's set up a canvas that's great for doing line work. To start we're gonna create a new Photoshop file...”

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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