Character Silhouettes

More practice with making character silhouettes! I've become rather taken with this outer-shape approach of designing readable characters by establishing a strong silhouette. I've doing this via Sketchbook Pro, pencil & paper, and the iPad app Inkpad.

(download)

Instead of a long post, I captured my thoughts in this 10 min video via another iPad app: Explain Everything.

(download)

Silhouettes for character design are super useful, a technique I value now just as much as drawing the stick and bubble figure skeleton.

 

Update December 7, 2011: fixed the link to the app Explain Everything.

Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

Rob Stenzinger's Blog. This is where I share a variety of thoughts and sketches surrounding my creative projects and interests (similar to what I share via audio on the AGZ Polytechnicast). I make comics, videogames, do comics and videogame workshops at Lean Into Art and provide design services as a UI+UX and Game Designer.

Archive

2012 (9)
2011 (32)
2010 (13)
2009 (6)

Contributors

Posterous theme by Cory Watilo