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Animal Character Design with David Colman (Streaming)

Lessons
01 Tiger Studies and Shape Exploration (Streaming)
Understand your character, get reference pictures and a lot of rough drawing to explore the shapes your character needs.
02 Gorilla Shape Breakdown (Streaming)
Keep sketching to breaking down shapes and achieve iconic recognizability in your characters.
03 Crow Studies (Streaming)
Apply your previous crow studies to get quick character designs.
04 Tiger and Gorilla Bodies Shape Design (Streaming)
Observe a study of a crow to identify the characteristic shapes that differentiate them from other birds.
05 Tiger Designs (Streaming)
Go through the design phase of your character’s body to better know their anatomy.
06 Final Tiger Designs (Streaming)
Continue with the exploration faze using the most necessary and appealing forms while keeping in mind who your character is.
07 Pose Thumbnails Part 1 (Streaming)
David guides you to synthesize forms, maintaining patterns in silhouettes, volumes and contrast on your character.
08 Pose Thumbnails Part 2 (Streaming)
Implement this exercise to unlock creativity and apply your study to the basic shapes of the character.
09 Gorilla Character Design in Color (Streaming)
Continue the thumbnail exercise keeping a sense of harmony and thinking in a three-dimensional character.
10 Crow Characters (Streaming)
Learn the criteria for selecting the best shape from the previous excersice and work thoroughly in styling and coloring.
11 Fox Studies Shape Exploration (Streaming)
David shows you a quick shape break down for a fox study, in preparation for the next exercise.
12 Drawing a Cute Fox (Streaming)
Start the exploration phase learning the proportions, parameters and references to obtain a cute character.
13 Bonus: Fox Supplemental (Streaming)
See the cute fox result, summarizing elements from previous lessons. Share your character design with #LearningFromDavid #CreatureArtTeacher