Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters
Character Thumbnails
A course by Guille Rancel , Illustrator
About the video: Character Thumbnails
Overview
“I will start by developing a witch as the protagonist of this new universe. To start designing a character I like to create a series of thumbnails in which I try to capture its essence. They are like little sketches where we can experiment with proportions. ”
In this video lesson Guille Rancel addresses the topic: Character Thumbnails, 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
“Character Thumbnails Now I will develop the protagonist of our universe. When I design a character, I like to create a series of thumbnails to create the essence of the character in a simple and small way. Thumbnails are like little sketches the size of a fingernail, though I'll make them bigger so you can see them, in which we capture the essence of the character to later take it to something bigger. Thumbnails are used in character design because we condense all the information into a sketch. Because they’re small, we play more with proportions and perhaps we try much more interesting com...”
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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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