Character Design for Beginners Online Short Course

This online course is ideal for anyone interested in creating and developing characters for books, comics, games or the screen. It will introduce how illustrators create static or animated characters with distinctive personalities and looks.

Brief history of character design

• Case studies: traditional and contemporary character design
• Main principles
• Anatomy and construction
• Breaking down the shapes
• Character appeal and personality
• Draw for your audience
• Character turnaround
• Posture and lines of action
• Facial expressions
• Harmony, balance and dynamism