Guided Course: Animal Characters to Tell Stories

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you my first sketches in pen and explain what I’m looking for in the drawings. I will talk a little about how I order the pages in my sketchbooks that I find useful. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Character Development: Sketches 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Course: Animal Characters to Tell Stories. Create expressive animal characters using sketching, colored pencils, watercolors for storytelling and children's book illustration.

Partial transcription of the video

“Character development Sketches Now that we have two characters, I'm gonna take these sketches from the notebook and move on to the next stage of cleaning it up and making it more presentable and then be easier to paint over at the next stage. So I'm just gonna use a pencil to redraw some of my pigeon characters, the ones that are working better. And then I'm just gonna go over it with a black pen and outline so I can see where I'll be painting on the next stage. When I'm drawing my pigeons out again, I'm just choosing the ones I think work best. And I do a loose sketch with the pencil so I ...”

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Course summary for: Guided Course: Animal Characters to Tell Stories

• Level: Beginner
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• 479 students
• 1 unit
• 7 lessons (1h 16m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Watercolor Painting