
Welcome to the course!. In this quick introduction i will show you everything we will be seeing, our goals and curriculum.
In this lesson i'll be going more in depth into the way the course is gonna go.
In the appended file .zip file you will encounter the .svg file with the assets as well as the five characters finished.
In this unit you'll learn the basics of Inkscape, as well as the most common tools and techniques for rendering your sketches.
Learn the user interface and the basics of how to handle yourself in Inkscape.
Objects are the way Inkscape handles the shapes you use to illustrate anything, in this lesson you'll learn the basics about them.
Path are the other half that makes up the drawing process inside Inkscape. In this lesson you'll learn what they are and how to use them.
Learn how to use two of the most important features for Illustration in general, Groups and Clips.
Here are a list of tips that i heavily encourage you to keep in mind at the moment of working with Inkscape.
In this lesson you'll be able to download the resources and exercice files belonging to the Inkscape mini-course.
Now that you have knoledge about Inkscape i want to go over the asset pack a bit more in depth.
In this lesson i will go over some of the most common tools and techniques you will be using over and over again when building characters with the asset pack.
Let's put the assets to the test by making the first character, the biker.
Let's continue with a traditional woman character.
Let's make a kid character.
In this lesson we'll go over how to make a girl character.
After seeing how to make different types of characters, i want to go over how to make a more unusual type of character.
In this lesson i will show you a system that will result in better quality characters.
Congratulations!. You finished the course. In this lesson i will go over the next steps that you should take if you want to keep learning.
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Hello and welcome to this course on character design. My name is Martin, and i'm really excited to show you a really easy and fun method to build vector style characters by kit-bashing them. Kit-bashing involves building a character from the ground up by assembling it with pre-made assets, in this case with a fairly large and flexible asset pack file i'll be providing.
In this course we are gonna make this very common type of vector characters that you see all the time in illustrations, web, animations and games. And that work really well when working with vector software.
And that's the thing, because we are working with vector software, we are building these characters entirely with the keyboard and mouse, no need to know how to draw, this course is perfect for beginners who want to start making characters somewhere, but are too intimidated because they think they can't draw.
There's no need for expensive software either, i'm gonna teach you how to use the awesome free and open source, vector illustration software, Inkscape, completelly from the ground up, along with the basic methods and techniques you need to assemble and refine your characters using the provided asset pack.
This course will start with an indepth look at the basics of Inkscape, aswell as the basic principles behind vector illustration in general. Then i'll be going in-depth into the asset pack, explaining how it all works and how to use it. Then we'll be making 5 characters in real time, explaining step by step, so you can follow along super easily. And we'll end up with a lesson on basic character design to improve the quality of your designs.
I want you to learn as much as possible from this course, so if you need any help, please don't hesitate to contact me through the course page, and I'll respond as quickly as possible.
I'm incredibly excited to get started, and I hope you are too! Let's dive in and have some fun!.