Exercise: Character Development
Character Development 31/07/2018 ' Collect as many examples as possible of different characters - Newspapers and magazines are a particular good source. Catalogue these characters as types - babies, children, sportsmen, old woman - create your own category headings. Decide upon a character you would like to create. Begin to brainstorm around your character - perhaps there are characters from the media or your own life you would like to focus on. Draw your character from the front, from the side and from the back. It may help to draw lines from the neck, shoulder, waist and knees as an aid scale and to ensure a sense of proportion. Draw your character over and over again. Get into role and adopt their mood , expression and personality. Try moving the facial features around to extremes and using a few lines and dots to represent the face. The try another, different, character. Make sure you come up with someone completely different, not just the same p...