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Domestika

Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration

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Overview

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Learn how to draw characters with personality by exploring shapes, movement, proportions, and scale to amplify their expressiveness
  • Introduction
  • Creating Unique Characters
  • Sketching and Illustrating Characters
  • Last Details before Sharing Your Work
  • Final project
By incorporating characters into your artwork, you can add personality and expressiveness that spark emotions in the viewer. Illustrator Tania Yakunova specializes in creating vibrant illustrations centered around expressive characters. She has exhibited her work around the world, and has collaborated with clients including Coca-Cola, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

In this online course, she teaches you how to draw convincing human figures using simple shapes and exaggerated forms. Explore drawing exercises to depict expressive humans while challenging the traditional rules of anatomy. Bring emotion to your illustrations with playful and unique characters.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Shapes, Emotions, and Synesthesia
  • Shapes and Personalities 1
  • Shapes and Personalities 2
  • Dynamics and Movement
  • A Diversity of Characters: Bodies and Scales
  • The Choice of Colors
  • Research and Sketching
  • Composition, Rhythm, and Dynamics
  • Lettering and Fine-Tuning
  • Tracing and Coloring in Adobe Illustrator 1
  • Tracing and Coloring in Adobe Illustrator 2
  • Texturing in Adobe Photoshop
  • Final Touches and Export
  • Character Exploration for Expressive Illustration

Taught by

Tania Yakunova

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