Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
Posing the Character 1
A course by Magdalina Dianova , Character Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Posing the Character 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll show you how to draw a character from different angles while maintaining its proportions and likeness. I’ll also teach you how to draw poses and how to push and exaggerate them to make your drawings more dynamic. ”
In this video lesson Magdalina Dianova addresses the topic: Posing the Character 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
“Posing the Character In this lesson, I’ll show you how to draw some poses for your character. I usually have this collection of reference photos that I take of myself whenever I feel inspired or I need to. I find it convenient to have some pictures because I can reference the clothing folds and just the general pose that the character has. In this case, I'm using a prop that is a camera and the clothing is pretty similar. I took these photos from my archive and I'll use them now. This is the first pose we’ll draw. Here is the reference image. I like it because it's a bit more chill, maybe t...”
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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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