Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters
About Me
A course by Guille Rancel , Illustrator
About the video: About Me
Overview
“To start I will talk about my work and what I like to do. I will tell you what I have done before getting here, as well as the importance of drawing in my life.”
In this video lesson Guille Rancel addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters. Learn to draw expressive and original creatures through a combination of exercises and sketches in your journal.
Partial transcription of the video
“Introduction I’ll start by talking about my work and what I like to do. I'll tell you what I've done to get here, as well as the importance of drawing for me. I'm Rancel, an illustrator, character designer, and comic artist. I was born in Tenerife and studied Fine Art, specializing in Illustration at the University of La Laguna. Then I studied 2D Animation at La Casa Animada. I follow the cartoon or stylized style, which is related to animation or European comics. What matters to me is that my characters tell a story. Sometimes I like to give a sinister or humorous touch to my drawings. At ...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Character Design, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching

Guille Rancel
A course by Guille Rancel
Guille Rancel is an illustrator and character designer. Specialized in cartoon style, he is inspired by mythology and nature, telling little stories with each drawing and
his work as a cartoonist for the comic Sorunne is among his most well-known.
Throughout his career, he has collaborated as art director on Emi the Dream Catcher, a series of comics, music videos, and children's animations and worked as a character designer for animation companies such as Promineo, B-Water, and Animation Mentor. He has also participated in magazines such as CDQ, Imagine FX, and Storytime Magazine as well as character design books including Masters Of Anatomy (Volume 2: Robin Hood) and How to Draw Expressive Faces and Hands) and 3dTotal's Character Design Collection (Heroines and Fairy Tales & Folklore). In addition, he has given character design workshops at La Galería Roja and Donde Doré.
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