Animal Character Design with David Colman

Get to know your teacher and more information about the topics you’ll learn in this course.

Understand your character, get reference pictures and a lot of rough drawing to explore the shapes your character needs.

Keep sketching to breaking down shapes and achieve iconic recognizability in your characters.

Observe a study of a crow to identify the characteristic shapes that differentiate them from other birds.

Go through the design phase of your character’s body to better know their anatomy.

Continue with the exploration faze using the most necessary and appealing forms while keeping in mind who your character is.

David guides you to synthesize forms, maintaining patterns in silhouettes, volumes and contrast on your character.

Implement this exercise to unlock creativity and apply your study to the basic shapes of the character.

Continue the thumbnail exercise keeping a sense of harmony and thinking in a three-dimensional character.

Learn the criteria for selecting the best shape from the previous excersice and work thoroughly in styling and coloring.

Apply your previous crow studies to get quick character designs.

David shows you a quick shape break down for a fox study, in preparation for the next exercise.

Start the exploration phase learning the proportions, parameters and references to obtain a cute character.

See the cute fox result, summarizing elements from previous lessons. Share your character design with #LearningFromDavid #CreatureArtTeacher