ABSTRACT

Character Costume Figure Drawing is an essential guide that will improve your drawing skills and costume renderings. Step-by-step visuals illustrate the how-tos of drawing body parts, costumes, accessories, faces, children, and different character archetypes, such as maternal, elderly, sassy, sexy, and evil. By focusing on the foundations of drawing bodies, including body proportion, bone structure, body masses, facial expressions, and appendages, this guide shows you how to develop sketches from stick figures to full-blown characters.

The third edition features a new chapter, Digital Mixed Media Costume Rendering. This chapter introduces the basic usages of Photoshop tools to enhance and improve costume designs, in order to provide easy delivery design ideas to the director and design team, provide easy changes and alterations during the design process, virtually apply actual fabric swatches over costume sketches, and help visualize lighting effects.

chapter 1|66 pages

Drawing the Figure

chapter 2|40 pages

Creating the Face

chapter 3|21 pages

Figure and Facial Variations

chapter 4|30 pages

Hands, Feet, and Accessories

chapter 5|15 pages

Character Costume Design Creation

chapter 6|56 pages

Rendering Techniques

chapter 7|84 pages

Character Costume Figures in Style

chapter 8|88 pages

Digital Mixed Media Costume Rendering

chapter 9|30 pages

Costume Rendering Gallery