With over 800 participants who took part in the Character Design challenge, it’s almost needless to say that narrowing it down to our final winners from the mass of very talented and creative designs was a difficult task for our judges. Challengers had to design 10 unique characters from an ancient civilization. Each character needed to tell […]
La méthode Kintsugi est une méthode japonaise créée au XVe siècle, celle ci veut littéralement dire « jointure en or ». Son histoire: Le Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, vers la fin du XVe siècle, renvoi…
SilllDA is a Korean-born artist who lives in Japan. There is no more useful information about her, but it's not that important — SilllDA's psychedelic ...
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pose reference drawings
Los Angeles-based illustrator and storyboard artist Victo Ngai produces layered illustrations that reveal elaborate worlds filled with unexpected details. A beautiful expanse of unencumbered nature stands guarded inside a wide-mouthed bullfrog, while a seaside city burns with brilliant flames in the fabric of a heroine’s dress. Each scene inspires the viewer to pause, making sure they haven’t missed a key character that might unlock the work’s tangled narrative. Ngai is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and provides illustrations for clients such as The New York Times and The New Yorker. More
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Should I open commissions of this style? 🤔 I quite enjoy drawing it! It's a nice pace after my main style
Once upon a time In a far-off kingdom
100 Modern Character Design Sheets You Need To See - Is An Article Filled With Character Design Inspiration. They Are Also Called Model Sheets, Description Sheets, Development Sheets, etc. They Will Inspire You To Create Your Own OC!
If you ever wanted to study the ins and outs of character design, this post is just for you. This Korean artist who goes by the name of Rinotuna on Instagram takes seemingly mundane items, food, plants and animals and turns each one into an anime character. And it's a character that you'd love to see in an actual anime. The way in which Rinotuna presents them might teach you a thing or two about how to use even the smallest of details from the reference image to make the character look very rich and interesting. And it's not just the similarities that make them pop, it's also the clever use of color scheme, the theme, and secondary features, among other things, as well.
If you're looking for human anatomy drawing ideas and pose references, I'm sharing some pretty cool anatomy references for you to check out.
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