Sketchbook: Creating Characters Based on Real People

Overview

“We will now focus on facial features and the technique we use to identify the shapes that make up the face. We will then begin to explore different shapes, sizes, and positions of features within the face. We will discuss the unique qualities that faces have. ”

In this video lesson Diego & Sebastian Ramírez Jacinto addresses the topic: Build the face, 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

“Since we have mastered the basic structure of the head, what is the skull and where the factions will meet, it's time to move on to design eyes, nose and mouth, I mean, the face of our character. It's important that we see what are the traits most characteristic of the face that we are going to draw. This is what we call using the first impression. So when you see a face and you can say, ah, this person has a big nose or his eyes are very pretty and very big, and from there you can say, ah, his eyes are big, I'm going to focus on the eyes in my main layout. Now we are going to play with the...”

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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)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Sketching