Character Drawing from Scratch: Capture Faces and Figures
Influences
A course by Laura Pérez , Comic Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Next, I want to share with you some of my main influences. These artists have inspired me and helped shape my own style.”
In this video lesson Laura Pérez addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Drawing from Scratch: Capture Faces and Figures. Capture the personality of a character through facial expressions and gestures by learning how to draw them from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I'll tell you about some of my influences, those things that inspire me to draw. I have here one of my influences for you to take a look at, it's the comic book artist Blutch. His drawings have a confidence that I find amazing. All his work, the comics you can find, have an amazing anatomical study of expressions and characters. I encourage you to check it out because I think that, if you like anatomy, if you like drawing, you'll get lost in his pages and you'll really enjoy his work. He’s an author I stumbled upon recently in a comic about the moon, and the truth...”
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Course summary for: Character Drawing from Scratch: Capture Faces and Figures
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Character Design, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Laura Pérez
A course by Laura Pérez
Laura Pérez has devoted her career to illustration and comics. She is an expert in capturing the essence of people in her artwork and is constantly exploring different forms of drawing and expression.
Her career in publishing began a decade ago, working at a Canadian illustration agency for clients like National Geographic, Penguin, The Wall Street Journal, and more. She later entered a Spanish agency and has now been designing comics for over four years. She has created projects for publishers Salamandra Graphic and Astiberri, and has illustrated picture books available in France, the United States, Russia, Italy, and Spain.
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