Designing Characters with Personality in Procreate
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Learn to design characters in Procreate by capturing the expressions and actions that encompass who they are, what they do, and where they’re from
When moved by a story you hear, watch, or read, the likelihood is, it’s due to the strength of the characters. Creating them, however, is not the simplest of tasks. With the help of Natália Dias, illustrator who’s collaborated with companies like TeleCine and Cartoon Network and has over 300K Instagram followers, discover everything you need to get started.
In this online course, learn the first steps in character creation with digital design. Using Procreate, Natália shows you the processes along with the main concepts involved in the creation of an illustrated character. If you want to keep exploring digital design to create stunningly imaginative portraits, take a look at Natália’s previous Domestika course Female Character Portraits in Procreate.
Meet your teacher, Natália Dias. She talks about how she turned her design hobby into a professional career, as well as shares the artists that most inspire her.
Next, get a brief introduction to Procreate, the software for the course. You can use another similar program if you prefer. Learn about the importance of anatomy and how your design choices affect how people perceive the characters, before discovering a gestural technique for more dynamic poses.
It’s time to draw! After choosing a theme for your project and putting together a mood board of references, start to develop your character. Do some initial sketching in this order: from the front, from behind, the face structure, and facial expressions based on different narratives. Natália then teaches you to apply color theory to help convey emotion.
Wrap up the course by exploring two different ways to paint, with and without line art, to use for your character’s skin, eyes, hair, and clothes. Get ready to wow the world with your characters, using graphic elements to express who they are, what they do, and where they’re from.
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