Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
Influences
A course by Magdalina Dianova , Character Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll share what are the things that inspire me the most as well as some of my favourite artists. ”
In this video lesson Magdalina Dianova addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality. Discover dynamic character design by learning to tell a story through expressions, poses, clothing, and more.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences In this lesson, we'll talk about inspiration and I'll show you some of my influences. The first artist that I'll show you is my absolute favorite, his name is Shiyoon Kim. He has worked on a lot of animation movies. These are some of his illustrations and drawings. This is some concept art for the movie "Big Hero 6." What I like about his work is the simplicity of his lines and how he can communicate many ideas with as few lines as possible. I like how diverse his characters can be and the designs of their faces and bodies. This is from the movie "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Ve...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Character Design, Drawing, Narrative, Sketching, Storyboard, Storytelling
Magdalina Dianova
A course by Magdalina Dianova
Magdalina Dianova is a self-taught freelance character designer based in Sofia, Bulgaria. From the moment she began drawing regularly, she posted her work, largely portraits, online for feedback. Initially this helped her improve and later became the way she attracted work. Clients regularly contacted her for commissions and she collaborated with various publishers. Later, she worked as an assistant character designer at an animation studio.
Since then Magdalina has continued to work in the animation industry as well as making her own online tutorials about drawing and character design. She has worked for clients including DreamWorks TV, Spin Master, and 3dtotal, and on projects such as the character design book Heroines, and the short film Goodbye Mr.Octopus, which was presented at the Venice Film Festival.
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