Character Design Basics for Animators and Illustrators

Welcome to Character Design Basics! This class will help you as you are designing characters for comics, animation, children’s books, magazine illustrations or anything else you are designing. 

In this class we cover these concepts:

-Shape language 

-Big Medium Small 

-Straights against curves 

-Silhouette 

-Reference 

PLEASE ask questions. I LOVE questions and it will help me know where you all are at and what I should include in future lessons. 

There is an optional exercise you can upload if you wish. Draw a bunch of fun silhouettes using a dark marker. Scribble and explore the magic of fun shapes! Then create a character off of those fun shapes. Upload a copy of your silhoette and the character you designed from it for all to see and comment. 

Thanks so much for taking the time to view this class! 

• Trailer
• Intro
• Shape Language
• Big Medium Small
• Silhouette,Straight against Curves
• Reference
• Putting it together
• Assignment