Book description
Character Costume Figure Drawing will develop your drawing skills to improve your renderings. Not only is this book gorgeous and inspirational, but these comprehensive visual images carefully illustrate--step-by-step--how to successfully render dynamic characters with personality and life. This book presents drawing instruction with detailed breakdowns of various types of characters. Maternal? Elderly? Sassy? Sexy? It all startws with body proportion, bone structure, body masses, facial expressions, and the hands and feet. Hats, props, fabrics, and choice of medium are all thoroughly covered to ensure the ability to develop convincing lifelike characters.* Includes unique three-step drawing guides that develop the sketch from stick figure to full-blown character
* Detailed examples of how to draw faces, hands, and feet
* Learn to draw realistic fabrics in a multitued of colors and textures
* NEW: Learn to draw your character based on the time period they are from
* NEW: Learn to draw children and music/dance characters
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Drawing the Figure
- Chapter 2 Creating the Face
- Chapter 3 Figure and Facial Variations
- Chapter 4 Hands, Feet, and Accessories
- Chapter 5 Character Costume Design Creation
- Chapter 6 Rendering Techniques
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Chapter 7 Character Costume Figures in Style
- Sketches and Renderings
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Constructing Character Costume Figures in Musical Productions
- Creating Character Costume Figures for the Musical The Most Happy Fella
- Character Costume Figures for the Musical The Boy Friend
- Character Costume Figures for the Musical Leader of The Pack
- Character Costume Figures for the Musicals Once on This Island and Pippin
- Character Costume Figures for the Musical Pippin
- Character Costume Figures for a Drama/Tragedy
- Character Costume Figures for a Comedy/Farce
- Character Costume Figures for Children's Plays
- Chapter 8 Costume Rendering Gallery
- Index
Product information
- Title: Character Costume Figure Drawing, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136081255
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