Expressive Character Design with Watercolor & Dip Pen

Overview

“Your workspace is all set and you’ve seen how to make the most of your tools. The next step is to start drawing characters, but maybe you struggle with the technicalities: how long should this leg be? How should it turn in space? In this lesson, I will cover the basics of anatomy, which will allow you to get more comfortable with character design!”

In this video lesson Agnès Ernoult addresses the topic: Believability through Anatomy, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Character Design with Watercolor & Dip Pen. Learn to create quirky characters full of personality by combining drawing exercises with watercolor and dip pen techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Believability through Anatomy In this lesson, we'll have a look at the basics of anatomy, which will help you to get comfortable around character drawing. We need to know anatomy because we need to understand how the body works to create relatable figures. You need to know how muscles and limbs turn and move to create a figure that will work in space. This Tarzan pic is drawn as classical anatomy designs, where you can see man figures with only muscles. That helps you see where all muscles are located. There are no bones, no skin, just muscles. As you can see, in Tarzan's picture, Glen Ke...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Character Design with Watercolor & Dip Pen

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (165)
• 6682 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 34m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Painting, Sketching, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting