Sketchbook: Creating Characters Based on Real People

Overview

“In this lesson we will begin to use the concept of “shapes” in character design and apply it to the different shapes you can give to the human head, starting with the skull.”

In this video lesson Diego & Sebastian Ramírez Jacinto addresses the topic: The skull and stylized features, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook: Creating Characters Based on Real People. Learn to design unique characters with our method, drawing inspiration from real life and capturing shapes and gestures..

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we are going to start by drawing the human head. The human head is made up of two shapes, the top and the bottom. These forms will change depending of the person we are looking at. Your job as a designer is to decide What is the right way to represent the head of who you are drawing. From the reference of photographs that I have on the table, I am going to start locating what figures I need to draw these specific heads. Let's see where to locate the features of the face. We are not going to design them yet, but it is important that we begin to visualize how are we going to co...”

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Course summary for: Sketchbook: Creating Characters Based on Real People

• Level: Beginner
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• 3844 students
• 5 units
• 14 lessons (2h 28m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Sketching