Introduction to Illustration of Characters with Gouache and India Ink
How to build characters? I
A course by Andonella , Cartoonist and Illustrator
About the video: How to build characters? I
Overview
“Preston Blair's character-building methods have helped me a lot to perfect my drawing skills. They are a very good guide when you draw a character from a graphic reference or your imagination. Based on this, in this lesson, we will practice the construction of a character based on basic figures. Let's start with the face.”
In this video lesson Andonella addresses the topic: How to build characters? I, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Illustration of Characters with Gouache and India Ink. Learn to give personality to your creations through colour.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] In this lesson I'm going to give some construction tips for characters, but before I want to teach how it is that I built my characters long time ago . Before I focused more on drawing and drawing and drawing when I was in school or so very boring because I was drawing a lot right? But I did not focus as much as on the part of the structure of the character and I think that at the end it shows a lot, for example these characters because they are very simple and very flat, which is not so bad I like them because reminds me of that moment in that I was starting to draw more and like t...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Illustration of Characters with Gouache and India Ink
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Character Design, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration
Andonella
A course by Andonella
Self-taught artist Andonella has managed to make a name for herself in the Mexican illustration scene with her cheeky and colorful characters. Her work is full of portraits, inspired by real people and the scenes that arise from her imagination, characterized by humor and irreverence.
Her work has been published in different digital and print media such as Vice magazine, Juxtapoz, and Nylon, and in publishers such as Planeta, Penguin Random House, and Santillana. In addition, she made the graphic identity of the Mextilo, memoria de la moda mexicana characters, is co-author of the book #AmigaDateCuenta: una guía para la vida, has worked with Pictoline and has collaborated with different brands such as H&M, Nike, and Ponds.
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