Character-Driven Illustration: Drawing from Imagination
Drawing the Head 1
A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator
About the video: Drawing the Head 1
Overview
“Now you will tighten your loose sketch and use photo references to help refine your box-form character and make them look more natural. Included in this lesson is a mini-lesson on the basics of how to draw the head. ”
In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Drawing the Head 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
“ Drawing the Head In this lesson, we're continuing from the previous one using photo references. I see this as an in-between stage. At this stage, we've drawn more or less an illustration that looks like a human being. What we'll do is use the photo references to add the face, the hair, the hands, the feet, that type of thing. What I have on the left again, using VizRef, is I've accumulated a bunch of photos of faces that I can use to help express in this character. I'm not doing anything wild. It's simply women looking towards the right. You're not there to make a portrait of any of these...”
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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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