Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Finding the attitude of the character
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Finding the attitude of the character
Overview
“Now I'll tell you how to find the right attitude for your character. In particular, I will show you how to express emotions through body acting and facial expressions. ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Finding the attitude of the character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters. Learn to design expressive characters in Photoshop by focusing on traits, poses, framing, composition, color, and shading.
Partial transcription of the video
“Finding the attitude of the character In this lesson I will teach you how to find the right attitude and the expressiveness of your character. Even for the attitude of the character, we have to start from the references as we did with the framing setup, so we look for references that relate to our characters. So where do we look? We can search everywhere, on the internet, in books or photos. You can draw on your personal baggage, or search on other platforms such as Pinterest. So let's start with the facial expression. It is precisely on the face that we focus the most when it comes to expr...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration
Alessia Trunfio
A course by Alessia Trunfio
Alessia Trunfio is an illustrator who specializes in children's books. Her love of drawing as a child motivated her to pursue the arts in college, studying a degree in film, followed by an animation course at the Scuola Internazionale di Comics in Rome. Soon after, she started working at an animation studio as a background artist.
Thanks to sharing her fanart and other works on platforms like Behance, she built a reputation and found success as an illustrator, turning it into a full-blown career. Over the years, she's collaborated on illustration and book cover projects with some of the biggest names in publishing, including Bloomsbury, Scholastic, Capstone, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
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