Specialization in Fictional Character Design and Illustration

Overview

“I will now walk you through some of the sketches I made earlier to show you the different ways you can experiment with the character's poses and core elements. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Thumbnailing 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Fictional Character Design and Illustration. Master the art of memorable fictional character illustration, developing dynamic, expressive characters with unique personalities.

Partial transcription of the video

“One thing that I find is a really useful exercise, and when I'm mentoring students, I often make them go through this with me, is the idea that pose is not design. facial expression is not design. Ideally, I should be able to communicate the ideas that I have just in a sketch in almost what we call in the industry a T-pose. where the character is just posed with their arms out and their legs sort of straight down. And the question as a character designer that's interesting, especially just as an exercise, to do when we're looking at this is how can I communicate my ideas. just in something ...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Fictional Character Design and Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 93 students
• 6 units
• 83 lessons (16h 30m)
• 25 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Character Design, Color Theory, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration