Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
Drawing the Body 2
A course by Magdalina Dianova , Character Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Drawing the Body 2
Overview
“For more variety, I'll make more character sketches with different shapes and body proportions. You'll see how you can experiment with different ideas within the same description. ”
In this video lesson Magdalina Dianova addresses the topic: Drawing the Body 2, 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 Body First, we'll make a few exploration sketches. Then we'll pick one to bring to finish in the end. For this character, I am trying to keep my shapes a bit elongated, and it'll be the distinguishable thing about this design. I'm keeping the legs, arms, and torso long, and I'll elongate the head as well but later. To make the body shape a little bit more interesting, I am keeping the shape of the legs a bit thicker at the top part. Then the bottom part is thin where the calf muscles are and also the feet will be long and pointy, unlike the other design, where they're rounded ...”
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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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