Draw Great Characters and Creatures: 75 Art Exercises for Comics and Animation

by Beverly Johnson

Overview

Learn to make your characters unique, compelling and lifelike with these 75 exercises for all skill levels, including beginners. Topics include tools and materials; shapes; personalities; facial expressions; body language; character interaction; and costuming. Character types featured include more than just humans; learn how to draw animals, plants, creatures and more. Author Bev Johnson guides you through a variety of questions to explore not only the kinds of characters you want to create, but also the relationships between them, such as who their friends and enemies are, what their personality distinctions are, etc. so you can you can create truly interesting characters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440300813
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/03/2019
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	605,079
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Beverly Johnson is an American model, actress, and businesswoman. She made history when she rose to fame as the first black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974. She starred in the OWN reality show Beverly’s Full House in 2012 and was named one of the twentieth century’s most influential people in fashion by The New York Times.