The project for this class will be a finished digital illustration of your fully developed character + character sheets with them in different poses, moods and from different angles.

We will start by creating a moodboard for your new character. For it we’ll:

gather the references keeping in mind the main points - character appearance, clothing, background, colour palette, additional characters and details
analyse the gathered pictures, rearrange them and delete the ones that don’t fit in with others
determine the colour palette we want

Then we’ll get to sketching the character in different positions, using our moodboard as a reference We’ll determine the format of the final illustration and make a few stages of sketches for it: a couple of rough ones and the final And on the final stage we will do the finished illustration in colour

The illustration is a finished work on its own, you can make a print out of it later, put it into your portfolio, post on social media. But in combination with the character sheets it can also be a good guide to developing your character even further, make a series of illustrations about them, create a whole story.

So take your iPad and let’s get our creativity flowing! See you in my class!

Miles Johnstone

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