Guided Course: Create a Balanced and Visually Appealing Sketchbook

Body moving

A guided course by Mattias Adolfsson, Illustrator

Illustrator. Sigtuna, Sweden.
Joined December 2019
100% positive reviews (1)
543 students
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About the video: Body moving

Overview

“In this lesson I will be completing the character studies by adding a body and showing how to catch emotions by posing the character. I will also show how you can construct a more complicated drawing with several characters.”

In this video lesson Mattias Adolfsson addresses the topic: Body moving, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Course: Create a Balanced and Visually Appealing Sketchbook. Create expressive characters from objects, master perspective techniques, and add vibrant color to your sketchbook illustrations.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we're going to continue drawing characters. We're going to continue with the complete body, because the body is just as much of the character as the face. And you can tell as much emotions with the body as you do with the face. It's easy when you start drawing characters that you just do the body. Very straight and standing like this. The arms just hanging to its side. with the body standing completely straight. It doesn't tell anything about the characters. You really need to start moving the body around the way you do when you talk. And when you're talking, you're not using...”

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Course summary for: Guided Course: Create a Balanced and Visually Appealing Sketchbook

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (1)
  • 543 students
  • 1 unit
  • 9 lessons (1h 43m)
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    Illustration
  • Areas

    Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration

Mattias Adolfsson

Mattias Adolfsson
A guided course by Mattias Adolfsson

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Mattias Adolfsson has been working as a freelance illustrator for over eleven years. While working as a graphic designer in the computer games industry, he started sharing his work on social media, where he began his successful career in illustration.

His long list of clients includes Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks, Cartoon Network, Warner Brothers, and other important animation studios. He has also illustrated for magazines including The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, and The New York Times.

Mattias has created a variety of illustration work in areas like product design, for baby clothes brand Atelier Choux Paris, record sleeves, as well as an art commission for the largest hospital in Sweden.


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Guided Course: Create a Balanced and Visually Appealing Sketchbook. Illustration course by Mattias Adolfsson

Guided Course: Create a Balanced and Visually Appealing Sketchbook

A guided course by Mattias Adolfsson
Illustrator. Sigtuna, Sweden.
Joined December 2019
  • 100% positive reviews (1)
  • 543 students