CHARACTER STYLING VOL.2 THE BEAR
TO DEVELOP NEW CHARACTERS, FREE TO BE USED,
THAT AT THE SAME TIME CAN TEACH TO CREATE THEM.
The series is both for professionals and young or very young amateurs who like to use their creativity for fun and to learn.
Many years ago when I was working as an illustrator, I always made an accurate visual study
of the many ways to produce each job.
I was surprised at the variety and beauty of the possibilities already explored by designers before me and the ensemble of the images that I found was much more fascinating than each single one.
I think that knowledge of a part of these is a good starting point and that there is no limit to new ideas, since ideas will always generate new ideas.
Apart from this, some publishers with a young target tend to give the impression, in style and graphics, of a painter or old-style artist rather than a designer attentive to the present world, or so it seems to me,as if computers do not exist , or Internet or animation in Flash or modern production techniques.
There are many books which explain how to design characters, animals or people but they seem to represent a world of the past.
I would like to remedy this with more modern and concise characters and volumes, giving more scope to the use of the computer.
This is an attempt, which I hope to continue, if the public is appreciative, with agile editions, not too many pages, but in large format as usual and always with a digital support of CD to transfer immediately all the material to the computer.
For the moment I am concentrating on animal designs, which are the most loved, but I do not exclude things and people for the future.
Each title will develop one theme at a time: cat, cow or penguin etc. but with different ways of characterizing them.
I will show how to construct the basic forms, the psychological and chromatic characteristics.
Like any respectable character, I will give them a suitable NAME and LOGO.
As with CHARACTER STYLING VOL. 1, I will include a large series of MODEL SHEETS which will show how to move and animate the character in various positions and situations.
In the hope of pleasing the designers who buy my books, I have developed, with these characters, GRAPHICS and TEXTURES ready to be used.
Highlights:
- Designs for any product and surface
- 222 Designs (8 Characters)
- All vector files saved in Illustrator V.10 in flat colors and CMYK
- Free to use in accordance with the copyright terms