Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
Designing Hair and Clothes 1
A course by Magdalina Dianova , Character Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Designing Hair and Clothes 1
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll learn how to design some outfits for your character that are related to its story. I’ll teach you how to draw and stylize clothes and folds as well as how to draw hair. I’ll also talk about maintaining an interesting silhouette with your shapes to make your design more distinguishable. ”
In this video lesson Magdalina Dianova addresses the topic: Designing Hair and Clothes 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
“In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to design a few outfits for your character that are tied to their story and personality. So for the purpose of the exercise, I made a full body front view drawing of my character. And I tried to keep the general proportions in mind and the size of the head. and also the lightness of the face. I also draw the character in kind of like a swimsuit because it helps me with the anatomy. And on a new layer on top of that, I am going to draw the outfit. And I'm also duplicating the layer with the character to keep for the other outfits as well. So we said ...”
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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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