Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration
Shapes and Personalities 2
A course by Tania Yakunova , Illustrator
About the video: Shapes and Personalities 2
Overview
“Here I'll show you two more exercises. In the first one, you'll learn how to create a character based on an abstract artwork. Then, you'll see how you can insert characters within defined and restricted shapes.”
In this video lesson Tania Yakunova addresses the topic: Shapes and Personalities 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration. Learn how to draw characters with personality by exploring shapes, movement, proportions, and scale to amplify their expressiveness.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Shapes and Personalities Now I have the materials ready for the second exercise. For the exercise that we will do I want you to choose some abstract composition that already exists. The good thing is to choose it from a great artist you like. We will try to find and create a character from this composition. I like this exercise because you already have a composition, a strong one, and you don't have to think about it. You can focus on the character and the story, and you have to deal with what you already have, so you need to push your brain to sync to find some solutions. I chose this co...”
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Course summary for: Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Tania Yakunova
A course by Tania Yakunova
Tania Yakunova is an illustrator from Kyiv. As a child, she was always interested in drawing, inspired by her grandfather who was a professional artist. She began studying at art school at the age of 7, and after graduating from university, began working as a copywriter. Tania later went back to school to study design and discovered a love for illustration in particular, which she put into practice working in a motion design studio alongside freelance projects in everything from editorial illustration to packaging design.
Since then, she’s become a full-time freelancer and has exhibited her work in galleries in France, the US, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Tania has worked with brands like Coca-Cola, Google, Upwork, Penguin Random House, Amazon, Visa Gold, Yves Rocher, and Facebook. She also runs her own poster shop.
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