Drawing Expressive Characters
Tips to improve the composition
A course by Omar Lozano , Illustrator
About the video: Tips to improve the composition
Overview
“Here I will share some "rules" that will help you better define the composition of the scene that makes up your illustration. ”
In this video lesson Omar Lozano addresses the topic: Tips to improve the composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing Expressive Characters. Capture every little detail to bring your characters to life through their facial expressions and body language.
Partial transcription of the video
“Tips to improve the composition As we saw in past lessons, the composition or silhouette of the characters It helps us a lot to define them. So when posing, the silhouette should be easy to distinguish. In this lesson we will see certain tips or rules that we can use regarding the illustrations to improve our composition. These three tips are line of action, clear silhouette and tangents. We will start with the first thing that is the line of action. This is the backbone of our composition, so to speak. It is that line that will go over the character or the trajectory of the composition and...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Expressive Characters
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Areas
Character Design, Comic, Drawing, Manga, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Omar Lozano
A course by Omar Lozano
Mexican illustrator Omar Lozano has more than 10 years' experience working on comics, children's books, and character design. He seeks to express life and what it is to be alive in each and every one of his illustrations.
It all began with comics when he worked as a film colorist for DC, Marvel, and IDW projects, to name just a few. He worked as an artist in the remake of Ultraduck (a Mexican comic known for its '90s-style inspiration) before training as a conceptual artist for video games. He went on to illustrate children's books, some including DC characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and the Justice League crew.
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