Character Drawing from Scratch: Capture Faces and Figures
Body morphology
A course by Laura Pérez , Comic Artist
About the video: Body morphology
Overview
“In this lesson we will address the basic shape of bodies. We have to keep in mind that it is more complicated than the head one, but we are going to achieve it. We started!”
In this video lesson Laura Pérez addresses the topic: Body morphology, 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
“Structure of the Body In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to work with the anatomy of bodies. It’s very similar to the anatomy of heads, but this time it's important to remember that the structure of the body is more complicated. It has more elements. It has torsion and different movements we must take into account, and we can approach these things very simply. The entire body is made up of geometric elements much like the head. The body has those nuances and that ability to transmit, allowing us to approach it in several ways. One of them is by conducting a study of how the body work...”
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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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