Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality

Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality

“We have reached the end of the course. I hope you enjoyed it and also feel more confident to create your own characters. Now you can apply the techniques and the process that you've learned to your own work and turn it into your own unique style. Let me remind you the most important steps you have to take in order to create your character and build a character sheet for your project. First, find out who your character is and gather reference photos and images to help you build its look. Draw some exploration sketches to come up with different options for the body and the face.

Ink your sketch and choose a colour scheme that communicates your character’s personality. Design several outfits and style your character’s hair. Draw different poses, using photos of yourself as reference. Don't forget to keep track of your progress with different pictures of each step. Share these pictures and your final character in the forum. You can do so by clicking on "Create your project". I also encourage you to help and give advice to other students in this course - working together can be very helpful and inspiring. I'll be reviewing your work too, and I'll give you feedback as often as I can. Thank you so much for joining me. I'll see you in the forum! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Thank you so much for taking my course. I hope you learned something new and maybe got inspired to create your own character. So let's review all the steps that we need to take in order to create a project like this one. So the first one is to create a mood board and gather some references that inspire our character. Then we write a simple description of who our character is and what they look like. Next, you need to draw a page of five or six exploration sketches and try out different ideas and silhouettes. In the next step, you need to choose one design that you really like, which is goin...”

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Course summary for: Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (677)
• 46630 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 48m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Character Design, Drawing, Narrative, Sketching, Storyboard, Storytelling