Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
Drawing the Body 1
A course by Magdalina Dianova , Character Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Drawing the Body 1
Overview
“Now I'll show you how to start drawing the body considering gesture, body language, exaggeration, proportions, and shape language. ”
In this video lesson Magdalina Dianova addresses the topic: Drawing the Body 1, 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
“So in this lesson, I'm going to show you how to draw the body of the character. We're going to focus on the general proportions and also the shape language in the silhouette. It's really important because in order to have a strong design, you need to have strong shapes and really distinguishable silhouettes. Okay, now let's turn drawing. So in the beginning, I sketch out the really rough shapes of my character. And I'm also using a really big brush because it prevents me from going into unnecessary details. And I start out with a character that is a little bit not too skinny. So I want to h...”
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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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