Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics
Character design
A course by Gabriel Rodríguez , Writer and comic artist
About the video: Character design
Overview
“In this lesson we will explain the basic criteria about how to develop character design, emphasizing the relationship between personality, body expression and formal decisions oriented to the needs of the specific story we are working on. In this case, a fantasy story that combines elements of science fiction. ”
In this video lesson Gabriel Rodríguez addresses the topic: Character design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics. Create fantasy comic strips from the technical script to the sheet in pencil.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will enter fully in the graphic part of our project, thinking about everything that will be The graphic development finished of our task. In this first lesson we will focus in what character design is and take into account some basic concepts that will help us solve this design in a way that serves what we want to communicate in our history. It is important to keep in mind that the logic of the course project it's not about learning specific techniques about the development of professional character design, but understand what the basics are necessary to use them as a comm...”
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Course summary for: Capturing Stories in Fantasy Comics
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Traditional illustration
Gabriel Rodríguez
A course by Gabriel Rodríguez
Gabriel Rodríguez Pérez studied architecture at the Catholic University of Chile, although he has been dedicated exclusively to comic drawing and screenwriting for almost fifteen years. At the end of 2002 he published his first comic book for IDW Publishing and since then he has worked with them on more than thirty editorial projects.
In 2008 he created, along with screenwriter Joe Hill, the horror and fantasy series Locke & Key, which has been extended from two graphic novels to a series of six books in more than fifteen languages and an adaptation as a series for Netflix.
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