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Character Design Quarterly issue 06 (Downloadable Edition)
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Issue 06 features a range of exciting artists and character designers to awaken your creativity! Self-taught artist Amanda MacFarlane discusses her engaging designs, Floriane Marchix chats to us about visual development on animated feature films, and James A. Costillo talks about the skills needed to become a successful Art Director. In this issue’s tutorials, comic artist Ivan Shavrin explains how to distinguish conflicting characters in a scene, Hollie Mengert creates a trio of characters featuring both contrast and cohesion, and Tata Che shows how a character can develop and adapt throughout a life span. Also in this issue you can find professional design tips from artists including Julia Christians, Luis Gadea, and Victoria Kosheleva. Plus, our incredible cover artist, Lois van Baarle (Loish), discusses her life and work as a freelance artist and shows the progress of creating this spectacular cover artwork!
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Character Design Quarterly is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques to professional illustrators, artists, and character design enthusiasts worldwide.
Issue 06 features a range of exciting artists and character designers to awaken your creativity! Self-taught artist Amanda MacFarlane discusses her engaging designs, Floriane Marchix chats to us about visual development on animated feature films, and James A. Costillo talks about the skills needed to become a successful Art Director.
In this issue’s tutorials, comic artist Ivan Shavrin explains how to distinguish conflicting characters in a scene, Hollie Mengert creates a trio of characters featuring both contrast and cohesion, and Tata Che shows how a character can develop and adapt throughout a life span.
Also in this issue you can find professional design tips from artists including Julia Christians, Luis Gadea, and Victoria Kosheleva. Plus, our incredible cover artist, Lois van Baarle (Loish), discusses her life and work as a freelance artist and shows the progress of creating this spectacular cover artwork!
Product details
Format 105 pages, downloadable PDF
Size 233MB
ISBN: 978-1-909414-70-9
Subjects covered: Character design
Part of series: Character Design Quarterly Magazine
Contents and Contributors
Behind the cover art: Lois van Baarle
Designing for children’s books by Julia Christians
Gone fishing! by Hollie Mengert
Meet the artist: James A. Castillo
Transforming a character by Luis Gadea
Meet the artist: Floriane Marchix
Gallery
Open and closed poses by Victoria Kosheleva
Plump tiger, sliding dragon by Ivan Shavrin
Meet the artist: Amanda MacFarlane
The rhythm of life by Tata Che
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About the Creator
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Lois van Baarle, best known as Loish, is an internationally renowned digital artist and character designer based in the Netherlands. With an enchanting signature style and ability to produce characters with depth and narrative, her talents have been acknowledged by big-name clients worldwide, including LEGO, Guerrilla Games, Amazon, EA, and Coca-Cola. After the release of her first two art books, Loish discovered her passion for sharing and teaching to demystify the digital art process, and an appreciation of her content is reflected in her ever-growing loyal fanbase of over two million.
Pernille Ørum is a freelance illustrator and visual artist living in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has a degree in Character Animation from The Animation Workshop, a highly respected specialist animation university based in Denmark. Her clients include Disney Publishing, Nickelodeon Jr., Mattel, and DreamWorks and she was Lead Character Designer on Warner Brothers DC Superhero Girls. Pernille's influential links to the entertainment industry are apparent in her latest collaborative project illustrating Marvels Hit-Girl comic book. Hit-Girl gave Pernille the chance to work with prolific comic book writer Mark Millar MBE as well as multi-faceted creative film maker, actor, and comedian, Kevin Smith, creator of Mallrats and the Clerks series. In recent years, Pernille has published two gallery style books: Blush and Coral, with the latter featuring an engaging foreword by Kevin Smith.