Introduction to the Creation of Cartoon Style Characters

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“Excellent! You've come this far with so many resources to use on your characters. The journey has been really fun and I am immensely happy that we are together on this project. I'm very grateful for your participation in the course and I hope we'll meet again soon. My greatest wish is that you keep drawing and that you don't worry if at first your drawings don't turn out as you expected, practice, passion and, above all, discipline will make you amaze yourself every time you pick up the pencil again. From now on, you will see the pencil as the means to connect your ideas and thoughts with the paper, the stage where your characters will come to life. Now share your final project in the forum by clicking on "Create your project". Remember to share both the final result of your drawing and the steps that led you to it. It would be great if you could show an image of each step and add a brief explanation about what you have done in each one. This way I will be able to give you feedback. On the other hand, if in addition to the Domestika community, you want to share your creation with the whole world, you can upload photos of them to Instagram with the hashtag #EdVillDomestika. Be sure to comment on the forum, follow me on Instagram and Facebook and let's not lose contact. Thank you very much and see you very soon! Ed Vill. ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Now we will see a short summary of the course. We defined the concept of caricature and gave you some tools to be able to define your own character. also shared processes that would help you to transmit the characteristics of the character to the paper. also told you how important it is for me to enjoy the process. I showed you my favorite tools and started to warm up engines with point and line exercises. Later, we talked about forming and deforming your characters and we tackled terms like rotation, geometric figures, disproportion, stretch and group. We study the elements of the face: ey...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to the Creation of Cartoon Style Characters

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (1283)
• 23385 students
• 6 units
• 21 lessons (3h 56m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Drawing, Traditional illustration