Designing Characters with Personality in Procreate
Pose with storytelling
A course by Natália Dias , Illustrator
About the video: Pose with storytelling
Overview
“Here, I will make small “thumbs” to choose, based on the silhouette, which ones are more interesting and contain more storytelling for the presentation of the character and alternative poses.”
In this video lesson Natália Dias addresses the topic: Pose with storytelling, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing Characters with Personality in Procreate. Learn to design characters in Procreate by capturing the expressions and actions that encompass who they are, what they do, and where they're from.
Partial transcription of the video
“Pose with storytelling In this class, I'll show you a little bit of the process to choose a pose that counts a little My character's personality. To start thinking about the final illustration, I'm going to start making what they call thumbs, which are small sketches that focus only on the character's silhouette to see which one is most interesting. The goal is for the thumbs to be small, quick to make and made in quantity. Some people prefer to do the thumbs at the beginning of the process, there along with the drafts, to help with character design as well. But just like the other steps, t...”
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Course summary for: Designing Characters with Personality in Procreate
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Figure Drawing, Traditional illustration

Natália Dias
A course by Natália Dias
Natália Dias is an illustrator from Rio de Janeiro, based in Paraná. Her passion for drawing began at a young age, and at just 15 years old, she began to share her first creations online. Without neglecting her creative side at any moment, she completed her undergraduate and master's degrees in history, with a major in fashion history.
Illustration has long been her hobby, but, more recently, she managed to break into the professional sphere, producing commissions for companies such as Telecine. She is currently working as a freelance illustrator and shares her work online with her more-than-300K Instagram followers.
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