Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination
The Basics of Perspective
A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator
About the video: The Basics of Perspective
Overview
“I'll talk you through the basics of one, two, and three-point perspectives.”
In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: The Basics of Perspective , 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
“ The Basics of Perspective In this lesson, we'll push it even further moving from gestures to what we call geometric box forms. We feel like we've been building up from the simple to the complex. Before turning the gestures into characters that look like characters and not blobs on the page, we have to figure out a way to simplify the human form into its basic parts. We started using shape language to do this with geometric shapes. Now, we'll move into more 3D perspectival space. We'll talk about using different forms to distill the bodies. We're talking about cubes, cones, cylinders, cubo...”
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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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