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Creative Character Design
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Creative Character Design

by Bryan Tillman
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
257 pages
4h 13m
English
Focal Press
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Chapter 7Aesthetics–Just What You′ve Been Waiting For

 

 

How did your assignment go? Did you notice anything in particular about your drawings? I hope it has encouraged you to use reference a lot more. I am not going to waste any more time. We are going to jump right into aesthetics. I know we discussed aesthetics briefly when we talked about shapes, but that was mostly about structure. Now we are going to get to the meat and potatoes.

Aesthetics is defined as “the philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste.” Hopefully, you can understand why all of these are important to character design. The aesthetic is the first thing the viewer will notice about your character design. No matter what anyone wants to tell you, human beings ...

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