Playful Character Design: Get Creative with the Exquisite Corpse Game

Explore your creativity and create playful character designs using the Exquisite Corpse game.

During this class, we will play Exquisite Corpse games to uncover hidden characters that are waiting for you to discover. Then we will choose and refine one of them. This is a fun and easy gamified experience which will help you come up with unexpected designs that you wouldn’t come up with otherwise. The creature that you will create can be later used in illustrations, animation, or be a part of your bigger story. 

This class is for anyone interested in character design: a) professionals who need a creative solution to get unstuck in their process b) newbies who want to create a character design or c) someone who just wants to have some fun.

Materials needed for this class:

• Paper and any drawing tool
• Colors (pencil, markers, acrylic paints, etc.)\
• Scissor

Nice-to-have for this class:

• Ruler
• Graphic tablet (iPad, Wacom tablet, etc.)
• Procreate or Photoshop
• Friend(s) - the more the merrier!

• Introduction
• Your Class Project
• The Exquisite Corpse Game - Single Player
• The Exquisite Corpse Game - Multiplayer
• Choose and Redraw
• Physical Retouch
• Digital Retouch
• Story
• Bonus Lesson - GIF animation in Procreate
• Wrap Up