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Designing Characters with Personality and Expression

Here is all the artwork I did for my Artstation Learning tutorial on Character Design. You can watch it here:

https://www.artstation.com/learning/courses/pDK/designing-characters-with-personality-and-expression

Course Description
The challenge with creating new characters is imbuing them with enough personality and expression so that the audience believes that they are real and can then empathize with them. In this course, Jenny Harder walks through the process of how to design a fresh character from scratch. She covers how to understand who the character is, and then gets into the design process, from gathering reference to a finalized, believable character. Following this design process will lead to characters that are much more than just lines and color on a blank canvas, and bring them into the real world; breathing beings with an agenda all their own.

Final Render

Final Render

Expressions

Expressions

Poses

Poses

Turnaround (Face only)

Turnaround (Face only)

Final Design

Final Design

Patterns

Patterns

Color

Color

Lineart

Lineart

Final outfit choice

Final outfit choice

Hood and Mask

Hood and Mask

Costume picks

Costume picks

Costume studies and ideas

Costume studies and ideas

Body base

Body base

Initial Sketches

Initial Sketches