Sketchbook: Creating Characters Based on Real People

Overview

“Finally, we'll review facial expressions and tell you how to represent them in your designs. ”

In this video lesson Diego & Sebastian Ramírez Jacinto addresses the topic: The mask and the expressions, 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

“Now that we know how to draw heads and faces, it is important to start using them. It is important that they express themselves. A face that does not express itself is useless for animation, it doesn't work for a character because it's not telling a story. The function of a face is to express itself. If we draw faces but can't make them gesticulate, that they get excited, let them smile, make them sad they will not serve In this lesson I am going to show you how to give life to the faces of our characters, making them gesture, that show expressions and therefore, they are alive The first st...”

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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