Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
Drawing the Head 1
A course by Magdalina Dianova , Character Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Drawing the Head 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll go over the basic head structure, and I’ll share some useful anatomy tips with you. I’ll also talk about proportions of the head, what makes a face look cute, and how to design more diverse faces. ”
In this video lesson Magdalina Dianova addresses the topic: Drawing the Head 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
“ Drawing the Head In this lesson, we'll talk about drawing the head. I'll discuss different proportions and how to design more diverse faces. I'll begin with this drawing and we spoke about how the shapes of the body are elongated. I want to do the same thing for the face, so I'll draw the shape of the whole head a bit longer and I'll keep the forehead and the top portion of the head a little bit bigger. To make the head of my character more elongated I split it into two parts and draw a line at the eyebrows, so I keep the entire face under that line, and the top part is just the forehead ...”
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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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