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Light & Shade for Characters
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Packed full of invaluable basics and easy-to-follow tutorials from expert working artists, Light & Shade for Characters is the ideal book to help you take your character designs to the next level. Leading character designer Kenneth Anderson (aka Character Cube) teaches the techniques of using light and shade to describe form, push stylization, and enhance storytelling. Then, eight global artists use step-by-step tutorials to demonstrate how to use successful lighting and shading to enhance colour, improve tonal structure, add story, achieve a realistic or stylistic approach, and more.
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Have you ever wondered how professional artists can light their characters in just the right way? Packed full of invaluable basics and easy-to-follow tutorials from expert working artists, Light & Shade for Characters is the ideal book for speedily and easily learning to elevate your character artwork.
Leading character designer Kenneth Anderson (aka Character Cube) teaches the techniques of using light and shade to describe form, push stylization, and enhance storytelling. Then, eight global artists use step-by-step tutorials to demonstrate how to use successful lighting and shading to enhance colour, improve tonal structure, add story, achieve a realistic or stylistic approach, and much more. Character designs include an ethereal mage, fierce Viking warrior, feisty goblin rogue, and a 3D android hero, and more!
• Introductory chapters covering the fundamentals
• Eight easy-to-follow character tutorials
• A variety of topics covered to build your skills and knowledge
• Detailed guidance and advice from professional character designers
• Full-colour illustrations and character artwork
FEATURING:
Isabella Agosti
Kenneth Anderson
Guilherme Franco
Gabriel Gomez Almenzar
Taraneh Karimi
Andrés Moncayo
Teo Skaffa
Rachelle Joy Slingerland
Ognjen Sporin
Product details
Softback 168 pages
Dimensions: 226mm x 177mm
Paper quality: Full-color premium paper pages
ISBN: 978-1-915992-19-2
Skill level: Beginner
Contents and Contributors
GETTING STARTED
by Kenneth Anderson
INTRODUCTION
THE FUNDAMENTALS
LIGHT, SHADE & COLOUR
DESCRIBING FORM
STYLIZING
STORYTELLING
TUTORIALS
VIKING WARRIOR
Designing a character with simple light & shade by Gabriel Gómez Almenzar
GOBLIN ROGUE
Stylizing a character with light & shade by Guilherme Franco
TINY WITCH
Controlling the tonal structure of a character with light & shade by Rachelle Joy Slingerland
GOLDEN-HOUR GRANDPA
Character, colour & lighting in a scene by Taraneh Karimi
ETHEREAL MAGE
Using light within a character design by Isabella Agosti
A SLICE BEYOND THE STARS
Telling a character with lighting by Teo Skaffa
ANDRIOD HERO
Using light & shade to create stylized form & volume by Andrés Moncayo
NIGHT AT THE CIRCUS
Realistic character concept illustration by Ognjen Sporin
GALLERY
About the Creator
Featured in this book...
Teo lives in an abandoned school building in the outskirts of Groningen in the Netherlands. He likes to draw creepy-cute atmospheric scenes and characters.
Ognjen Sporin is a fantasy illustrator and concept artist from Serbia. He has been in the art industry since age 19 and his clients have included Netflix, Wizards of the Coast, and Marvel.