Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
Lines and Layers
A course by Florian Satzinger , Character Designer
Joined November 2021
Joined November 2021
About the video: Lines and Layers
Overview
“Let's see some warm-up exercises. I will show you how I create analog layers by just using different colors. ”
In this video lesson Florian Satzinger addresses the topic: Lines and Layers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities. Explore anatomy, perspective, volume, light, and shadow to bring human-like animal characters to life on the page.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Lines and Layers In this lesson, I will show you some exercises for how I warm myself up for the drawing process. I'll show you how I do lines and how I do layers without working with different layers, but with different colors. That means I draw blue lines and go over them on the same paper with a dark pencil. This creates a layer system without a layer. The tools that I use for this lesson are the blue pencil, two regular pencils, and a paper knife for sharpening those. I'll show you how I sharpen my pencil with a knife. I take the blue Col-Erase pencil and the paper knife and cut off s...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Florian Satzinger
A course by Florian Satzinger
Florian Satzinger is an Austria-based character designer and visual development artist. Inspired by the classic, hand-drawn Disney films of his childhood, he went on to study fine arts and animation before launching his freelance career. After building a portfolio of advertising projects, he ventured into the animation industry, creating poster and cover art for Looney Tunes Magazine. Impressed by his illustrations, the Vice President of Walt Disney International contacted him and invited him to join the development team.
During his time at Warner Bros. and Disney, Florian collaborated on some of the most iconic cartoon characters in history, including Donald and Daisy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Sylvester. He has also worked for businesses like The Zanuck Company, ReelFX, Space Age Films, Psyop, Ravensburger North America, Facebook, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Red Bull, and Snapchat. In addition to the art he’s created for the animation and comic-book industry, he illustrates satirical cartoon caricatures that are regularly displayed in galleries like the Caricature Museum in Krems, Austria.
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