Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters
Warm-Up: Find the Shapes
A course by Guille Rancel , Illustrator
About the video: Warm-Up: Find the Shapes
Overview
“Now I will teach you a more experimental and spontaneous exercise. It is about making shapes and trying to find a character or a creature in them. This will serve to work from the imagination and avoid the initial blockage.”
In this video lesson Guille Rancel addresses the topic: Warm-Up: Find the Shapes, 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: Finding the Shapes In this lesson we will do a more experimental and spontaneous exercise. We will draw random organic shapes and with them we will try to draw some characters. This will help work from the imagination and overcome that initial block. To do so, I will use a colored pencil. I’ll draw some random shapes, without looking for a specific shape, like trying to work from instinct. This is very interesting to do with other cartoonists. You can turn the pages of random drawings, have others fill them out and you filling out your friends’. I'll start with this one. I see like...”
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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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