Fundamentals of Character Design
Chapter 1 - Intro
Chapter 2 - Designing From Life
Chapter 3 - Visual Association
Chapter 4 - Finding Your Characters Personality
Chapter 5 - Creating Form in Abstract Shapes
Chapter 6 - Breaking Down Shapes
Chapter 7 - Staging Your Character
Chapter 8 - Creating Appealing Characters
Now that we have found our characters poses, let's move on to facial expressions.
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tara
2yr
Here are some sketches of facial expressions designed with reference from bodiesinmotion. This is basically where I am at in a 5 or so minute sketch now after a lot of practice with using shapes, straights, and curves. I've been limiting my time on each sketch to get as much practice of different expressions as possible, so they are generally a bit rough but I'm improving quite quickly, I think. I'm still having trouble with retaining volume once the shape deviates too far from the human figure. Not sure if anyone is doing this course anymore but I'm going to keep posting in case. Thanks to anyone who takes the opportunity to have a look or offer some critique. Tara
Linus Lehmann
2yr
I really like your exercise, and the drawings you did. To me these dont look that flat, but since you said that your having trouble with it, i would recommend that you draw through the form more. Or you first just draw a face (or something else) the way you did, and than try to draw crosscontourlines (imagine how a rubberband would wrap around the form and draw that.) Hope it helps.
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Illustrator working in film as a designer and storyboard artist- known as the "animal guy" for my passion for doodling animals. insta @davidsdoodles
