Character Drawing from Scratch: Capture Faces and Figures
Definition from the notes
A course by Laura Pérez , Comic Artist
About the video: Definition from the notes
Overview
“From the quick notes, I am going to teach you to better develop an idea. I will take one of the notes that I made in the previous lesson and I am going to delve into it.”
In this video lesson Laura Pérez addresses the topic: Definition from the notes, 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
“Definition Based on Quick Sketches In this lesson I am going to take one of the sketches that we did in the last lesson and I'm going to try to define it a little more. It is an exercise that I do often when I have to make a comic, a picture book, or anything I have on hand at the time. There are times that I take one of the sketches that I made and I give it another chance, develop it a little more, I go deeper with it and, well, I use other materials. Sometimes what I do is work from this sketch and I work with materials like the ones I'm going to use now, and other times I use Procreate,...”
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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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