Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination
Foundations of Character Design
A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator
About the video: Foundations of Character Design
Overview
“Here you’ll learn about what “shape language” is and the various ways that you can use geometric and organic shapes to create characters that have different personalities. ”
In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Foundations of Character Design , which is part of the Domestika online course: Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination. Learn how to transform simple shapes into engaging narrative illustrations featuring characters full of color and personality.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Foundations of Character Design In this lesson, as a reminder, we'll create character-driven illustrations, meaning that the characters we draw will have some purpose or intention. They'll not be standing around doing nothing. They'll be doing something. In this lesson, we'll talk about shape language. We pay attention to other people's body language. That's what shape language is about. When we look at people's body language, it communicates certain information. One is how they are feeling and two, what their personalities are like. When we take these images of people that we see, we can...”
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Course summary for: Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination
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Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Traditional illustration
Marcos Chin
A course by Marcos Chin
Marcos Chin is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared on surface and wall designs, on book and CD covers, advertisements, fashion catalogs, and magazines. He has worked with companies such as MTA Arts for Transit, Neiman Marcus, Fiat, Budweiser, Time, Rolling Stone Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times.
Marcos has given lectures and workshops throughout the US and abroad. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches Illustration at the School of Visual Arts.
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