Characters
Lesson 2 of 4 Creative Illustration
In this lesson, you'll come up with the characters in your story. After doing some rough sketching, you'll create a full color portrait of your hero. Amin will cover several important concepts about color and lighting in this lesson, along with some useful tips for speeding up your art creation. At the end of this lesson, you'll have a finished piece of character art.
Finding the Right Hero
Make some rough character sketches. You can start with general shapes and work your way up from there. Try to capture their general attributes without worrying too much about the specifics. You'll refine one of these characters further in the next chapter.
Solid Lines
Choose one of your character sketches and refine the line art, then ink the outlines. You can use any digital or analog medium for this stage, from Photoshop to pen and paper.
Splash of Color
Now that you have your outlines and shapes in place, you can begin coloring your character art. Use everything you've learned about color and lighting throughout this chapter to help you create the most compelling image possible.
Getting in Shape
Now you will take your inked character art, close any outlines, and begin filling each space with differently shaded shapes. It's not necessarily about value or lighting at this stage, but simply filling things in. You'll use these shapes later when it's time to lay in the colors.
Student Homework
Lesson 1
Concepting
In this lesson you'll come up with the characters, world and story that you'll use throughout the rest of the course. Amin will take you through a few exercises to decide on a genre and logline, before diving into references and thumbnail sketching. Don't be afraid to experiment here- you never know what might inspire you!
- 57 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 15 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Conceptualization
References
Thumbnailing
Lesson 2
this lessonCharacters
In this lesson, you'll come up with the characters in your story. After doing some rough sketching, you'll create a full color portrait of your hero. Amin will cover several important concepts about color and lighting in this lesson, along with some useful tips for speeding up your art creation. At the end of this lesson, you'll have a finished piece of character art.
- 1 hour 23 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 18 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Rough Sketching
Hero Pose
Creating Shapes
Color
Conclusion
Lesson 3
Environments
In this lesson, you will come up with an interesting environment for your character to live in. Using all the concepting methods you learned eariler, you will thumbnail, define and iterate on your scene. At the end of this lesson, you'll have a finished piece of art showing off your world.
- 55 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 9 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Reference Gathering
Rough Sketching
Color Painting
Conclusion
Lesson 4
Key Art
This lesson will collect everything you've learned so far, by combining the character and environment designs from the previous two lessons into a single hero illustration. You'll also adapt your finished key art into one or more alternate versions, for display in different kinds of media. At the end of this lesson, you'll have multiple portfolio pieces showing off your new illustrated property.
- 1 hour 16 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 19 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Poster Line Art
Basic Value
3D Reference
Final Poster
Alternate Key Art
Conclusion
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