Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Prepare sketch 2
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Prepare sketch 2
Overview
“Here I will continue working on the sketch by arranging the character in all its parts, cleaning up the drawing and defining the basic shapes of the background.”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Prepare sketch 2, 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
“Prepare the sketch And now, always starting from this sketch, I clean up the drawing even more. Let's always remember the direction from which, for example, the wind blows, then all the elements they will go more or less in that direction, like the hair and then, later, I'll fix the clothes too. We've fixed the character's face for now which should more or less be fine. Now let's start arranging the clothes a bit too which I just sketched out earlier. As you can see, I chose to dress the character very casually, because I thought it's a character not too interested in her way of dressing, s...”
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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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