Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination

Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination

“And that's a wrap! Thank you so much for signing up. I hope you feel inspired and ready to move on to your final project and all the ones to come! Before saying goodbye, I'd like to do a quick summary of the steps I suggest you follow. Create a loose sketch of our character using gestures, after which we gave structure to this sketch using the box-form method. We used photo references at this stage to help you along the way.

Soften the lines of the box-form to make the drawing appear naturalistic and more like a character. Make a loose drawing of our character, illustrating the face, hair, hands, clothing, and drapery. Add colours and textures (which we made using analogue materials). Please share your work in the forum, and comment on your classmates' work. I can't wait to see what you make. See you in the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“ Final project Congratulations on reaching the end of the Domestika course. I hope you enjoyed it and learned from my steps to create character-driven illustrations. Before I go, I'd like to recap some of the steps that we went through to create characters that have some purpose and intention. In the first step, we learned about fundamental exercises, where I taught how to create different characters, using simple shapes that had different personalities and conveyed emotions. In the next step, we learned about gesture drawings, which is a way to capture the overall essence of the pose, mak...”

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Course summary for: Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (19)
• 817 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (5h 16m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Traditional illustration