Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters

You will know the work of Crisaseo, who will tell you about his professional career and will show you his influences, important personalities of the current illustration.

Then he will talk about the theory of evolution, reviewing the particular characteristics of some of the most famous and memorable characters in the history of animation.

You will explore the different tools that you can use to create characters and you will do all kinds of exercises to release your hand and practice with these drawing tools.

You will discover the geometric figures as a starting point to give life to your characters and you will understand the importance of the facial expression; a complicated subject that you will learn to capture easily.

Crisaseo will show you its methodology to devise the personality of each of its characters through the details and how to draw the different views that compose it.

Once you have the complete sketch on paper, you will digitize it and learn how to combine Illustrator and Photoshop to draw, apply color, shadows, brightness and textures, resulting in a professional illustration.

Finally, you will observe some samples and suggestions to use your characters in all kinds of products and applications.