Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters
Why a Creature Drawing Journal?
A course by Guille Rancel , Illustrator
About the video: Why a Creature Drawing Journal?
Overview
“In this lesson I will talk about the habit of drawing on a sketchpad. We can theme the notebook by choosing a theme that we like to draw or we want to develop for some idea or with some objective. We can also do it as a learning exercise to get a constant drawing habit.”
In this video lesson Guille Rancel addresses the topic: Why a Creature Drawing Journal?, 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
“Why a Journal of Creature Drawings? Let’s talk about the habit of filling a sketchpad with fantasy creatures and characters from our imagination or from references. The objective is to fill our sketchpad with sketches focused on creating a story or developing a project that we have in mind. This habit will act as training and to improve your technique. Besides, your sketchpad is like your laboratory, where you can experiment and try new formulas. I've always had the habit of filling a sketchpad. Since I was little I’ve filled many pads with sketches, drawings, experiments. Although it is re...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters
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Category
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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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