Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters
Forest Creatures
A course by Guille Rancel , Illustrator
About the video: Forest Creatures
Overview
“We will continue sketching flora and fauna of our new universe. We can take advantage of the references we have and create other elements from our imagination.”
In this video lesson Guille Rancel addresses the topic: Forest Creatures, 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
“Forest Creatures In this lesson, we will keep designing flora and fauna from the world we’ll create. You must ask if you know how to draw them, if you have reference in your visual library for those animals, or if you need to use references for it. I'll start drawing toads and other amphibians, as well as other forest creatures. We can start with a very simple shape to get a character out of it. For example, a very fat toad. While drawing the toads I remembered that in a previous exercise I did one that I found interesting. He has the peculiarity of looking a little old, so I'll try to deve...”
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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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