Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity

Creating an Original Character

A course by Eunice Adeyi , Digital Illustrator

Digital Illustrator. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Joined December 2020
96% positive reviews (144)
4,634 students
Audio: English, Spanish (Latam), French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish
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About the video: Creating an Original Character

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll give examples of great character design from tv shows and also provide a live demonstration of how you can create a strong appealing character design of your own.”

In this video lesson Eunice Adeyi addresses the topic: Creating an Original Character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity. Learn to create strong and expressive female characters by exploring anatomy, color theory, and proportions in Procreate.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I'll be showing you how to create an original character, how you can get inspiration from culture from personal interest, Now I will show you examples of my work on a quick demonstration. An original character is a fictional character that is designed by the artist or a storyteller. It can be inspired by things in the real world. or in fiction, but it's not an actual person or creature. You can create an original character based on a story or design an original character first and then create a story behind it. I tend to design my original characters first and then create a ...”

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Course summary for: Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity

  • Level: Beginner
  • 96% positive reviews (144)
  • 4634 students
  • 4 units
  • 17 lessons (3h 34m)
  • 5 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Procreate
  • Areas

    Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Painting, Traditional illustration

Eunice Adeyi

Eunice Adeyi
A course by Eunice Adeyi

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Digital Illustrator

Eunice Adeyi is a Nigerian-born digital illustrator based in the UK. She taught herself the skills needed to create professional portraits during her time at design school where she was studying to be an interior designer. Since then, she’s used her expertise to create artwork for brand commissions and personal projects for her six-figure Instagram account.

Eunice specializes in painting strong female characters which are designed to evoke confidence in women and has collaborated with brands including Pipsticks, Refinery29, and Fairyloot.


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Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity. Illustration course by Eunice Adeyi

Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity

A course by Eunice Adeyi
Digital Illustrator. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Joined December 2020
  • 96% positive reviews (144)
  • 4,634 students