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Skillshare

Character Illustration: Give Personality to Your Characters

via Skillshare

Overview

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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