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Character Illustration: Give Personality to Your Characters

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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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