Eggleston, B. (2017) How To Make A Living As a Character Designer. [Online Video]. 2 February 2017. Available at:...

Gaming is another area where ethnic minorities are underrepresented. In 2016 a game called Mafia 3 would be released. While others...

I wanted to look deeper into the issue if race in art and the media, and being a black man myself I find it an important issue to talk...

Kinds of Careers You can make a career as a character designer, firstly by working for an employer, with long term work at one company....

Clarity Good design should involve three key elements, clarity of silhouette, clarity of palette and clarity of exaggeration. These are...

The video from Chelsea Gracei went in depth about how shape language is used to create characters in illustration. She explained that...

I was reading an article about shape language and how it is used in the illustration sector to convey a certain message. Iryna Korshak...

The creative process can be broken down into five different stages. These stages are not always linear, there will be times were the...

Minnie Small is a freelance illustrator who I have followed for years and I started to realise that I have mirrored her creative process...

Christoph Niemann is an ingenious illustrator who uses simple imagery to create his designs. He bases his designs on how the human mind...

I watched this video by Bob Proctor and it was just so powerful the way he talks about the creative process and I learnt that it can be...

I was able to develop the character even more and the outfit started to express a bit of his personality. Instead of a cape, which was...

I started drawing up costume ideas as the character was a chef/superhero type, but I had a hard time merging the two, so I started to...

I learnt from my last mistakes that I need to gather references before drawing something. I especially need them for clothing as it is an...

I started to find what I was looking for in this character, I changed the arms for a more natural position and since its a character...

Gabriel Picolo is a comic artist and illustrator. His main interests are the stars, the cosmos, archery, Greek mythology and streetwear...

I lined up all the figure studies and picked out the ones that I thought would work best for a simple pose. I then gave a little...

I put together some images of the things that I wanted for the character, the type of pose, the build, body parts and clothing. This...

I felt much better creating these figure studies as I was just able to simplify the male form. I knew that I wanted the character to be...

I started to make another male figure study to gain more knowledge about the male form and I tried to follow this tutorial by Hardy...