Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
Understanding the Canvas
A course by Florian Satzinger , Character Designer
Joined November 2021
Joined November 2021
About the video: Understanding the Canvas
Overview
“The sheet of paper you are drawing on will be fashioned into a sort of room with perspective, volume, and grid—three-dimensional qualities of both the space around the character and the character itself. ”
In this video lesson Florian Satzinger addresses the topic: Understanding the Canvas, 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
“ Understanding the Canvas This very lesson is about understanding the canvas as a three-dimensional space and not just a two-dimensional flat canvas. I'll show you what I mean by that. For this exercise, I'll create a canvas on the canvas. I'll draw a canvas on this sheet of paper. Say, this box is a sheet of paper. I think about this sheet of paper as the window to a three-dimensional world. If I draw a horizon here... with some reference points for the perspective... I can draw into it, for instance, an egg. That is an egg or a large stone. I'll use some basic shading to make the form an...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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