From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
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Starting with a rough construction
From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
Starting with a rough construction
- Now what I'm going to do is take this character, our little space cadet fox who I've pre-designed, and we're going to put him in an action pose, and by doing this I'm going to show you my entire work flow as it would apply to a full-figured sketch. Don't worry about this model sheet for now. We'll cover this in a later movie. What we're going to do is to take this three-quarter pose and make him do something interesting. What I'm going to do is to create a gesture drawing of our figure and, just roughly matching his proportions, and sometimes when I do this I like to have the model sheet or a reference image for the character off to one side, so you may find that helpful so you don't drift too far off. Line of action was my first stroke, and then I began blocking in the main body and this is a gesture drawing, so what I want to do is a very quick, very dynamic pose that captures the essence of the action, so we have his finger pointing up, and I'm feeling like it might be time to go…
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