Comics and Illustration: Present Your Editorial Project
Character design
A course by Sergio Bleda , Comic Book Author and Professional Illustrator
About the video: Character design
Overview
“Next, we will work on character design. The design is key, because it will be the editor's first visual contact with the work we want to do.”
In this video lesson Sergio Bleda addresses the topic: Character design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Comics and Illustration: Present Your Editorial Project. Learn to professionalize your comic art ready for publishing by discovering all the stages of constructing an editorial project.
Partial transcription of the video
“Character design In this lesson we are going to talk about character design. Character design is essential. because it is the first contact the editor has with your graphic section. The editor has already read the synopsis, he already knows what the story is about and now you need to meet the characters. As an author, you will know that when designing a character you have to be very clear about how it is structurally, what kind of clothes are you wearing? What we cartoonists do is grab our sketchbook and make the character seen from many angles, with one clothes, with another. In this case,...”
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Course summary for: Comics and Illustration: Present Your Editorial Project
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Editorial Illustration, Marketing, Portfolio Development, Traditional illustration

Sergio Bleda
A course by Sergio Bleda
Sergio Bleda began his career as a cartoonist and scriptwriter in 1991, making comic strips for the regional weekly Crónica; since then he has evolved his craft as a cartoonist and illustrator, excelling in the horror genre, although he also does humor, children's, adventure, and erotic works.
He has worked for magazines such as El Víbora and Kiss Comix, and with international publishers such as Casterman and Soleil, with which he has published series such as NSA and Dolls Killer He has also been awarded the prize for best illustrated album in the I Edition of the Carlos Giménez Awards for Cinco Relatos Apasionados, an erotic book with explicit content written by Ricardo Esteban and illustrated by Bleda.
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