Character Drawing from Scratch: Capture Faces and Figures
Natural drawing of figure
A course by Laura Pérez , Comic Artist
About the video: Natural drawing of figure
Overview
“We return to the notebook to make notes naturally. In this case we are going to draw people in motion.”
In this video lesson Laura Pérez addresses the topic: Natural drawing of figure, 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
“Figure Drawing from Life This lesson is about drawing people in motion. In other words, I am going to work from a video that has been recorded of people interacting with each other. It's a motion video, therefore, I will be paying attention to the poses, the attitudes, to the parts that I am most interested in capturing and making drawings of. There are different people, so I have different opportunities to take references from one or another. In some I will like the pose, in others I will like the type of clothes they wear, in others I will like the things that appear around them, like a c...”
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Course summary for: Character Drawing from Scratch: Capture Faces and Figures
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Category
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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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