Children’s Character Creation: Techniques and Styles

Overview

“In spite of everything, the character is very static, right? And, clearly, the lines of action are missing! Adding expressiveness, emotions, movement and dynamism adds up a lot so that the character speaks for itself. Next, I will show you what the lines of action are and how to give the character dynamism and expressiveness. ”

In this video lesson María Antonella Fant addresses the topic: Dynamism and Expressiveness, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Character Creation: Techniques and Styles. Learn to illustrate characters for children’s stories that reflect your own personality using digital techniques to bring them to life through shapes, colors, and textures.

Partial transcription of the video

“Dynamism and expressiveness In this lesson we will see how we add dynamism and expressiveness to our characters. When we draw a character, it is not the same to draw it like this than draw it like this or draw it like this. Because in the first pose I did the character is not telling me much, it lacks expressiveness. Instead, the character who was doing like this I realize that he is a much stronger character and he has much more expression on his body. We can achieve this through the line of action. What is a line of action? It is a resource widely used in animation, which is an imaginary ...”

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Course summary for: Children’s Character Creation: Techniques and Styles

• Level: Beginner
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• 1374 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 20m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing