Stylizing Human Characters
How do you go from a reference photo to a stylized character ready for their debut? Learn how to design appealing and engaging characters with pro illustrator Jake Parker.
Learn how to stylize human characters
From animated films to children's books, the ability to create engaging, appealing, and stylized characters is a highly sought after skill set. In this course, Jake takes you through the thought process behind stylizing characters, how to break down a design from complex to simple, and apply those principles with techniques that work.
Learning to stylize:
In this class Jake deconstructs complex design problems into basic, understandable components. The lesson is broken down into these sections:
- The Style Wheel, what it is, and how it helps your thinking behind design
- Example: Stylizing an eye
- Example: Stylizing an ear
- The Style Wheel and character design
- Examples of popular characters and deconstructing their style
- Proportions
- Shapes
- Stylization of individual body parts
- Demo of stylizing a character from a photo
In this class you will learn:
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The principles of character design
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How to apply these principles to create different characters
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How to analyze photos of people and apply real life reference to your designs
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Methods of working up from a thumbnail sketch to finished drawing
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About the Instructor
Illustrator/Cartoonist Jake Parker
For the last 19 years Jake has worked on everything from animated films to comics to picture books. For several years he worked for Reel FX and Blue Sky Studios on such projects as Horton Hears a Who, Rio, and Epic. He is the creator of the popular Inktober drawing challenge. Jake currently works as an illustrator and cartoonist on children's books and comics. He works out of his home studio in Arizona.
Course curriculum
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Stylizing Human Characters
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About this course
- 1 lesson
- 2 hours of video content
- 1 Video
Reviews
Love this course
Michaela Heimlich
Jake Parkes showed us how easy it is to stylize a character from shapes and how to break down the proportions of the human body.
Jake Parkes showed us how easy it is to stylize a character from shapes and how to break down the proportions of the human body.
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Joshua Warlick
A really easy to understand way of analyzing the style of characters. This will be really helpful for my own character design challenges.
A really easy to understand way of analyzing the style of characters. This will be really helpful for my own character design challenges.
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Olivera Kovacevic
An essential study for disconnecting yourself from realistic drawing, the right, organic way.
An essential study for disconnecting yourself from realistic drawing, the right, organic way.
Read Lessvery good direction on making a character
anna pascual
This is a very helpful lesson on making characters. I only animals so this will help me break out of that cycle and be able to make human characters and eve...
Read MoreThis is a very helpful lesson on making characters. I only animals so this will help me break out of that cycle and be able to make human characters and even stylizing my animals I draw.
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