Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
Quick Pose Exercise
A course by Raúl Allén , Illustrator and Comic Artist
About the video: Quick Pose Exercise
Overview
“Next, I will start by making a series of quick natural drawings to train the hand and acquire ease and speed in the line. ”
In this video lesson Raúl Allén addresses the topic: Quick Pose Exercise, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters. Discover how to draw urban characters using reference materials while exploring and developing your own personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“quick pose exercise In this lesson we will train the coordination between the hand and the eye. We will also learn to see. To do this, we will do a series of quick pose exercises in which we will warm up the hand and begin to release the stroke. These quick posing exercises are not about making finished drawings, but simply to capture the essence of the figure. It will also help you create a series of mental images so you can expand your library of poses and when drawing whether you will draw using references or work in your head, that library of poses will help you to give your figures mor...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration of Urban Characters
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Category
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Software
Procreate -
Areas
Character Design, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Traditional illustration

Raúl Allén
A course by Raúl Allén
Raúl Allen is an illustrator and comic artist from Valladolid, Spain, with a long-standing career in the industry. He studied fine art in Salamanca and later moved to Boston where he specialized in illustration and design. Raúl has worked on comics starring iconic characters such as Wonder Woman, Secret Avengers, Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist, and with writers including Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Warren Ellis, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Vita Ayala, and Robert Venditti.
He has also collaborated with big names like Marvel, DC, Valiant, and Boom; on publications like The New York Times, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Billboard Magazine; as well as adidas, Tiempo BBDO, CHINA, Vitruvio Leo Burnett, and many more in the advertising sector.
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