Dynamic Character Illustration
Offered By: Domestika
Course Description
Overview
Learn professional drawing and coloring techniques for creating animated characters full of movement
In this course, learn how to bring characters to life using digital illustration and Photoshop. Discover Thomas’s professional techniques for sketching, coloring, and finishing original characters that seem to jump right off the page. Are you ready to refine your technique and start creating characters that showcase your unique illustration style?
- Introduction
- Preparation: Character Basis and Research
- Production: Giving Shaping the Character
- Post-production: The Final Touches
- Final project
In this course, learn how to bring characters to life using digital illustration and Photoshop. Discover Thomas’s professional techniques for sketching, coloring, and finishing original characters that seem to jump right off the page. Are you ready to refine your technique and start creating characters that showcase your unique illustration style?
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Influences
- What We Will Do in This Course?
- Drawing Techniques (part 1): Dynamic Characters and Movement
- Drawing Techniques (part 2): Construction and Basic Shapes
- Drawing Techniques (part 3): Drawing from Reference 1
- Drawing Techniques (part 3): Drawing from Reference 2
- Drawing Techniques (part 3): Drawing from Reference 3
- Drawing Techniques (part 3): Drawing from Reference 4
- Photoshop Setup 1
- Photoshop Setup 2
- Researching Your Character
- Sketching (part 1): The Pose 1
- Sketching (part 1): The Pose 2
- Sketching (part 1): The Pose 3
- Sketching (part 2): Clothes and Accessories 1
- Sketching (part 2): Clothes and Accessories 2
- Sketching (part 2): Clothes and Accessories 3
- Rendering 1
- Rendering 2
- Rendering 3
- Rendering 4
- Rendering 5
- Rendering 6
- Rendering 7
- Rendering 8
- Coloring 1
- Coloring 2
- Coloring 3
- Corrections
- Apply Your Character
- Next Steps Improving
- Characters in motion
Taught by
Thomas Rohlfs
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