Designing Animal Characters

Designing Animal Characters - student project

Hi!

I'm very excited about this course because I dream about becoming an illustrator once, so watching process of someone who can do such amazing drawings is an awesome opportunity to learn, thank you for the amazing lessons.

Here's my process

I studied and traced some photos to learn a bit about foxes, then tried to draw 'realistic' version.

Designing Animal Characters - image 1 - student project

When I was designing the character I noticed I prefer to kinda shape up the character with an eraser and get surprised with the shapes that come out, rather than plan what I wanna create... It helped a lot when I decided I want my fox to be cute and put him in the little scene.

Designing Animal Characters - image 2 - student project

I really want to learn to outline once, I never do that in my drawings and I find it super hard. But practice is the key, so I tried...

Designing Animal Characters - image 3 - student project

... and eventually decided to go without the outline ^^'

Designing Animal Characters - image 4 - student project

I created the silhouette in Illustrator, cause as the teacher mentioned, the pen tool is working more precisely there. Finally, I picked up a color palette and gave my little fox some life and a little friend.

Designing Animal Characters - image 5 - student project

Thanks for visiting my project page, and thank you, Teacher, for an amazing course!