Character Illustration: Give Personality to Your Characters

Offered By: Skillshare

Course Description

Overview

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In this course, you're gonna learn how to design better characters by understanding shape language. Shape language is how shapes communicate aspects of a character's personality and mood.

Here are the topics I'll be covering:

What is shape language?
Where does shape language come from?
Shape language in cartoons.
Shape language in videogames.
Designing a character.

For the project in this class, I'm gonna be working digitally, but you can use any medium you like.

Syllabus

Introduction
Materials
What Is Shape Language
Shape Language Is All Around You
Case Study: Shape Language in Cartoons
Case Study: Shape Language in Videogames
Project Time!
Good and Friendly Witch Design
Reliable and Stable Witch Design
Evil and Dangerous Witch Design
Final Thoughts

Taught by

Gabriela Benke

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