Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters
Warm-Up: Let Go of Your Hand and Draw from Your Imagination
A course by Guille Rancel , Illustrator
About the video: Warm-Up: Let Go of Your Hand and Draw from Your Imagination
Overview
“The ideal thing to start with is to let go of your hand a bit before getting to the point. It is like a warm-up that we do before the sport. In addition, it will help us gain confidence with the materials.”
In this video lesson Guille Rancel addresses the topic: Warm-Up: Let Go of Your Hand and Draw from Your Imagination, 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
“Warm-up: Loosening up Your Hand and Drawing from your Imagination The ideal, before getting down to it, is to warm up your hand a little. Now we will do a warm-up that will give us confidence with the materials. I’ll show you several effects you can achieve with the pencil. For this lesson, I will start by using a colored pencil. I usually use a blue one, but I'll use this red so you can see better. You can use any one you like. First I want to show you the different effects you can get by adjusting tilt and pressure. For example, with the pencil more inclined, taken from the back end, if w...”
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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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