Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
Getting to Know Your Character, Inside and Out
A course by Sarah Hand , Artist, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Getting to Know Your Character, Inside and Out
Overview
“Now that you have some ideas, it’s time to start drawing and designing your character. You’ll learn about making your character’s shape reflect something about its personality. ”
In this video lesson Sarah Hand addresses the topic: Getting to Know Your Character, Inside and Out , which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character. Illustrate friendly characters full of hopes and dreams using simple paper mache techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Getting to Know Your Character, Inside and Out In this lesson, we'll get to know our characters. You've already generated some ideas, but now we'll get down to the business of designing and drawing our final character. I have an idea for my final character. I'm not exactly sure what's gonna happen, but I know that I want her to have a big oval head. Why? I don't know, it just happens that way sometimes. Probably some bangs and maybe a little short haircut. I think I want her to have really long arms and a dress. A lot of times when I'm drawing my characters, I just put hands that kind of lo...”
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Course summary for: Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
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Areas
Art Toys, Character Design, Creating with Kids, Toy Design, Traditional illustration
Sarah Hand
A course by Sarah Hand
Sarah Hand is a Virginia-based artist, author, teacher, and paper mache enthusiast. As a self-taught, lifelong maker of things, she has always been creative, but it was a puppet show which first sparked her interest in paper mache. The experience kick-started her career as an artist and has since taught children and adults alike how to express themselves through paper mache.
Sarah currently hosts paper mache workshops at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and the Virginia Museum, of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at several galleries, and she recently published a book with publishing group Quarto Creates in which she shares her step-by-step guide to using paper mache to create sculptures with personality.
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