Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination

Using Geometric Box Forms 1

A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator

Illustrator. Nueva York, United States.
Joined December 2019
100% positive reviews (19)
780 students
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About the video: Using Geometric Box Forms 1

Overview

“In this lesson, you’ll learn to refine your “gesture drawings” to give them more form and structure and draw your characters using the geometric box form method.”

In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Using Geometric Box Forms 1, 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

“ Using Geometric Box Forms In the previous lesson, we learned techniques in perspective and manipulating the cube or rectangular shape in a way that can bring us to this stage of the process, which is to finally create a character that looks more like a character and not just gestures or characters built with geometric shapes. In this next lesson, we'll start with learning a bit about the basic skeletal system. I promise you it won't be anything too complicated. First, we'll take this image. I'm using VizRef. I grabbed this image from the internet and I encourage you to do that as well. Fi...”

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

  • Level: Beginner
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  • 4 units
  • 21 lessons (5h 16m)
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    Illustration
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  • Areas

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

Marcos Chin

Marcos Chin
A course by Marcos Chin

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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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Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination. Illustration course by Marcos Chin

Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination

A course by Marcos Chin
Illustrator. Nueva York, United States.
Joined December 2019
  • 100% positive reviews (19)
  • 780 students