Drawing Expressive Characters
Pose and gesture
A course by Omar Lozano , Illustrator
About the video: Pose and gesture
Overview
“When you begin to define the sketch, the gestures are a fundamental part of the final piece. In this lesson you will learn to develop them for the final project.”
In this video lesson Omar Lozano addresses the topic: Pose and gesture, 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
“Pose and gesture Once we work on the sketches, I would continue to better define gesticulation and better define the pose of the character. For this we will move on to our paper for the final project and we will lower the sketch, but in a more defined way, where we will explain little by little detail by detail what will be done about the final project. To begin with, we already had the sketch predefined in the initial sketches. We will start this sketch, like everyone else, with the skull to define well how the face will go and in the head we must see the space we have on the sheet so as n...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Expressive Characters
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Category
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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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