Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
Linework and Colour 3
A course by Magdalina Dianova , Character Designer
Joined June 2021
Joined June 2021
About the video: Linework and Colour 3
Overview
“In order to see what colours fit your character, try out different colour schemes. Here I'll show you which one I've chosen and finish my character.”
In this video lesson Magdalina Dianova addresses the topic: Linework and Colour 3, 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 from here, I want to create a couple different color schemes and then pick one in the end. So this is going to be my base because I know for sure that the skin color and the hair are going to look like that. For the socks, I'm not sure, but I'm going to keep them. So I will duplicate this layer. Find the copy. And then I will work on this one. And in the same way, I'm going to create maybe three different color schemes. And I like to repeat the colors a lot in my drawing because I feel like that makes it look more cohesive and put together, So I picked the same gray from the sweatpants ...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality
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Category
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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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