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Sophie Lawson

@xin-li Hello Xin. I've made a note of the course Thank you. That sounds like such a good idea, I'm getting excited now Thank you.

Sophie Lawson

@carriecopa Hello Carrie. Thank you for the recommendations I do prefer working from books, dunno why, but I will most likely buy that as I do love copying other artists sketches

I love the sound of a character design focused magazine, sounds absolutely amazing. Just found it online, sold out of issues 1 and 2 I'm going to look on YouTube in a minute to see if anyone's flicking through an issue, think I'm going to have to buy that. Thank you so much for taking the time to share these!

OH MY!! They sell these on ebay WOOHOO! I just purchased issue 5 and 6, the first issue is on there, but it's like £70. That's mental. Do you have all the issues Carrie? They're on YouTube too

Sophie Lawson

@twiggyt Thank you Twiggy. I love the thought of breaking other artists characters down into basic shapes. Never thought about doing that. Carrie just recommended some magazines/books, so I think I will try this with any of the characters I like in those

I think I need to do character chart. I've seen some other artists do this on Instagram I think, they always look so cute lol … yes, a character chart sounds exciting Do you do one when you first create a character or once you know what your character is about? Could you use a character chart to find you character? Like, could that be the starting point for a new character?

Thank you so much Twiggy.

carriecopadraws

@sophie-lawson I have issues 04 and 06. (I knew a couple artists featured in 06 so I had to order it!) I wouldn't worry too much about back issues though if the price is so steep - the retail price is $16 / £11. I'm definitely considering a subscription though! It's like getting the one issue free.

TwiggyT

@sophie-lawson I generally do character turn-arounds and such once I have the character figured out a bit. I do a bunch of sketches and start figuring out what I want the character to look like, and once I get something I feel is really solid I try redrawing the character to see if there's anything I'm struggling to re-create consistently. Once I feel like the character is pretty solid I do stuff like turn-arounds, expressions, and color studies to nail the design down.

Eli

@sophie-lawson One more thing--if you haven't checked out Jake's course on stylizing human characters here on SVS, you might find it interesting as well. He talks a lot about shape language and the spectrum between realism and abstraction. It is worth a watch if you're into character design...

Sophie Lawson

@carriecopa Carrie … I went a bit mental after your post and purchased loads of books last night lol I picked up issue 5 and 6 and the book you mentioned, as well as about 7 other books that I found on YouTube related to your ones

"Sketching from the Imagination - Characters" seems like a really nice one for copying the sketches inside Here's a flick through on YouTube

Thank you so much for taking the time to share these books Carrie, got me really excited.

Sophie Lawson

@twiggyt Thank you Twiggy.

Just googled turnaround sheet … cool I've never drawn lilSOPHIE side on before … not even sure what her side looks like in my head yet lol

Character sheets looks so fun. I think I could get addicted to just creating new characters just to make new character sheets

Sophie Lawson

@eli Thank you Eli … I've made a note Going to start some videos tomorrow after work.

carriecopadraws

@sophie-lawson Oooh, that Sketching from Imagination book looks like a really good resource! Might have to pick that up myself, thanks for sharing!