Character Design For Beginners #1: Introduction and Theory

Danan Thilakanathan

5 Videos (12m)

- Introduction
  
  3:38
- Importance Of Anatomy
  
  2:54
- Creating Appealing Characters
  
  1:58
- Set Yourself Free
  
  1:19
- Exercise: Draw What You See
  
  1:56

About This Class

In this class, you will learn the importance of human anatomy and the secrets to creating appealing looking characters for comics, games and movies.

This is the first of 7 classes that will teach you and help give you the skills to designing and drawing realistic and appealing looking characters.

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For this project, let's start off easy. Simply draw what you see. Take the time to go out to a nearby park, train, shopping mall or some other public place and simply observe the people around you. Bring a drawing pad and pen/pencil with you and very loosely, sketch a few people while taking their poses into account. Try to fill out a page full of sketches a day for the next 2 weeks. This is a technique that was introduced by Joumana Medlej (from tutsplus) and the main idea is to grab their energy at that time and store it so that we could later re-use it for our own projects.

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Danan Thilakanathan

Hi, my name is Danan. I am a Software Engineer by day and a filmmaker/animator/educator by night.

I started out making an animated short film for fun using Blender a few years ago. It was during this time did I realize I had a huge passion for 3D filmmaking. I have spent the past 5 years making animated short films and have learned a great deal about the entire process of filmmaking and animation.

This is something that I do as a hobby. Animation and filmmaking are both somethin...

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Illustration Drawing Character Design Concept Art Graphic Design Creative Digital Painting Figure Drawing

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