2D Character Design
3D Character Design
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Author_Brookes Eggleston
Body Language
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character accessories
character age
Character Anatomy
character arc
Character Archetypes
Character Backstory
character body type
character cliches
character clothing
character color palette
character concept
character concept art
Character Creation
Character design
character design career
character design commission
Character Design for Games
character design job
character design portfolio
Character Design Process
character design reference
character design software
character design tips
character design tools
character design tutorials
Character Development
Character Development Stages
character digital art
character diversity
character emotion
character ethnicity
character expression
Character Features
character gender
character gesture
character illustration
character line art
character motivation
Character Personality
Character Poses
character posture
character props
character reference sheet
character rendering
character shading
character sheet
character silhouette
Character Silhouettes
character sketch
character traditional art
character tropes
character turnarounds
character visual development
character visual style
character worldbuilding
Color Theory in Character Design
comic con
Concept Art
Costume and Accessories
Costume Design
course
Design Iterations
Designing for Animation
digital art
Digital Character Design
Drawing Expressions
emotion
Emotional Design
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Facial Expressions
Fantasy Characters
film frame
generator
Gesture Drawing
ideas
manga
naruto
portfolio
procreate
Proportions
sheet
Stylized Characters
typography
Visual Storytelling
Product details
- ISBN 9781446314869
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 211 x 274mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2025
- Publisher: David & Charles
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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All you need to learn the art of creating iconic, fun, and memorable characters!
Character design is the art and process of defining a new character and their physical, mental, psychological, and social attributes.
Ideal for all those involved in creating artwork for gaming, animation, advertising, social memes, cartoons, graphic novels, and comic strips
Course structure provides tutorials on all the basics plus sections on story telling, rendering, and developing expressions
Includes both pen and pencil techniques as well as screen grabs for both digital and analogue artists
Each chapter includes an introduction and brief refresher from the previous section to monitor and measure your progress as the course develops
Take your artistic skills to the next level and develop characters that are memorable and bursting with personality.
Brookes Eggleston, founder of Character Design Forge in New York has worked in studio settings and in a freelance capacity as a Character Designer, Illustrator, Story Artist, and 3D Modeler for over 15 years.
The tips and advice shared in this book are aimed to help the reader create characters for an audience. For more than eight years now, he has enjoyed the privilege of mentoring countless artists reach their goals.
