Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
Linework and Colour 1
A course by Magdalina Dianova , Character Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Linework and Colour 1
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll learn how to ink and colour your final character sketch. I'll share some useful tips on line weight and show you how I tweak my Procreate brush settings to make the process easier. Finally, I’ll talk about colour theory and how to communicate your character’s personality through the colour scheme. ”
In this video lesson Magdalina Dianova addresses the topic: Linework and Colour 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
“Linework and Colour This lesson will be divided into two parts. In the first one, we'll talk about linework and in the second one, we'll talk about color. First, we'll take a look at some old drawings of mine, and I'll share some useful tips on line weight, and then we'll discuss the color schemes. After that, we'll ink the final design that we created in the previous lessons. First, we'll look at this drawing I made a while ago. If you notice, the lines are thicker in some areas and thinner in others. There are a couple of different things you need to remember when you're making these deci...”
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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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