Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters
No more scratching
A course by Christian Michel , Graphic designer and illustrator
About the video: No more scratching
Overview
“With a few nonsense scratches, we'll see how you can start discovering your first characters; I will also show you how you can play with shapes to be able to find faces, even between paint spots.”
In this video lesson Christian Michel addresses the topic: No more scratching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters. Learn to draw fantastic characters like a professional.
Partial transcription of the video
“Surely they got tired of being there scratching with the pencil, staining this part of the hand, which is horrible, and smearing all the pencil sheets. And then, now we are going to start creating A stream of characters. And the first exercise I think they will like it very much. They can grab any pencil, it can be colored, it can be an ordinary pencil, and what we are going to do is just start to make nonsense scratches on my sheet. We are going to make a lot of scratches, it doesn't even matter if they are light or dark, but we are going to fill this whole sheet of scratches. Well, since ...”
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Course summary for: Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Christian Michel
A course by Christian Michel
Christian Michel has always been surrounded by art and as a child he was clear about his vocation as an illustrator. He studied graphic design at the Universidad Anáhuac del Sur (Mexico), where he also had the opportunity to offer a chair. He founded the Visual Infection studio, based in Mexico City and San Antonio, specializing in packaging design, illustration and advertising, where he works for companies around the world.
He has exhibited part of his work collectively in Mexico City, Toulouse, Barcelona, Finland, Berlin and New York. Recently he has dedicated himself to share his work and experience as a lecturer in Mexico and abroad. Part of his work can be seen in specialized publications, in all kinds of products and in well-known advertising campaigns.
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