Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
Linework and Colour 2
A course by Magdalina Dianova , Character Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Linework and Colour 2
Overview
“Once the inking is done, let's start colouring the character - it might be helpful to change the background colour as well.”
In this video lesson Magdalina Dianova addresses the topic: Linework and Colour 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
“And when I'm drawing the camera, I'm being really careful not to add too much detail. because it has a really complex shapes with a lot of buttons. I'm trying to get the general shape done. and only add one or two buttons just to show that they are there. But I don't really need to draw everything. So if you're using a reference picture, You don't need to aim to get all of the detail in your drawing. Just a few things to get the general idea across are enough. And I'm also making sure that its lines are a little bit thinner. Because again, I don't want it to distract too much. But I'm makin...”
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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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