Drawing Journal: Create Fantasy Characters
Body and Facial Expression
A course by Guille Rancel , Illustrator
About the video: Body and Facial Expression
Overview
“For me, the expressiveness and personality of my characters is very important. This is what this lesson will focus on. You will see how I make expressive and dynamic sketches of the characters I have created. This will also help us assimilate and better understand their shapes, volumes and proportions. Testing our characters will help us manage them better!”
In this video lesson Guille Rancel addresses the topic: Body and Facial Expression, 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
“Body and Facial Expressiveness When creating characters, expressiveness and personality are very important. That's why we will focus on creating expressive and dynamic sketches with our creation. This will help us understand their shapes, volumes, and proportions. Testing our character will help us understand him better. On this page I worked more on the sketch of the character and around him I will draw some full-body poses that will help me improve his expressiveness and anatomy. In this sketch I have drawn her in a resting position, which serves as an introduction to the character. Now I...”
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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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