Illustration of Adorable Characters Inspired by Nature
About drawing animals
A course by Johanna Forster , Illustrator
About the video: About drawing animals
Overview
“Fantastic creatures always have models in nature. To create a good base for our fantasy animals, let's take a look at the anatomy of real animals and how we can simplify them in drawings. ”
In this video lesson Johanna Forster addresses the topic: About drawing animals, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration of Adorable Characters Inspired by Nature. Design lovable digital characters inspired by nature and use them in a variety of decorative compositions.
Partial transcription of the video
“About the sign of animals Now let's switch from flora to fauna. Let's use our imagination right now and our botanical inspirations transform into fantastic creatures. But how do you actually draw living beings? Fantasy animals are mostly mixed creatures from two or more other living beings. So e.g. For example, a dragon is a hybrid of a lizard, a dog, and a bat or a centaur a hybrid of human and horse. That's how my characters should be a mixture of plant and animal. I'll show you how I draw creatures and how to draw extra cute creatures. In biology one differentiates anatomically like this...”
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Course summary for: Illustration of Adorable Characters Inspired by Nature
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Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing
Johanna Forster
A course by Johanna Forster
Johanna Forster is a freelance illustrator from Saarbrücken, in the southwest of Germany, best known for her cute fruit and vegetable characters. Johanna first studied Fine Art, but quickly switched to the Media Art and Design course, as she was attracted by the variety of Concept Art courses.
A big fan of video games, she also illustrates concepts and has developed several of them, as well as board games. In fact, Nordlicht, the point and click videogame she developed during her studies, even won an award. She has also worked until 2022 as an illustrator at the studio Chasing Carrots. She is currently freelancing with her online shop, where she sells prints, cards, originals, stickers, magnets and many other items inspired by fruit and vegetables.
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