Fundamentals of Character Design: How to Create Engaging Characters for Illustration, Animation & Visual Development Paperback – Illustrated, November 24, 2020

One of my favorite art books. So much information and wonderful art.

It's have everything about character design, a lot of examples, organized, really cool. Try to find all that informations through the internet will take a lot of your time. In this book is it all, you can just read and draw without searching web.

It has multiple different art syles with examples on how they push their artistic ability! Even the "bad" examples arent that bad especially when the art is so beautiful but it shows how to hit that next level.Its a LARGE book! Tons of information! I just love it! Very glad I got it on sale but its worth its full price as well!

I loved this book and went through the whole thing in like 2 sittings because it was a fun read. I'm only barely learning to draw on the side as a hobby and the insights in this book are SUPER valuable. I see a lot of art from other amateurs online and after reading this book it's PAINFULLY obvious that other budding artists need this book. Character design is a much more complicated topic that "make them look cool/cute."Each topic is covered from multiple angles and written by multiple different artists. The variety of perspectives is pretty great, but where I have to lean toward 4 stars is that all of the examples lean toward like a Pixar/Disney type look. I'm exaggerating a bit, but there's not a lot of more serious-tone designs or anything like anime style (if you're into that). However, that's more an issue of imagination on the reader's part. Everything they're describing works just as well for those art styles, they just don't demonstrate the principles using those types of designs.Pick up this book after you understand a bit about gesture drawing and figure drawing, maybe even try out a few Loomis heads first.

I am really enjoying working on some of the technique and it is helping.

Love the book. Great pictures

I ordered this book along with a few other book. All of the books came in one box that was stuffed with some paper. The other books I ordered were undamaged, but this one... What the heck happened to this book? As soon as I took it out of the box, I saw that half of the pages were horribly folded. Sone of the pages were even ripped. The amount of damage done to this book was too offensive for me to tolerate looking at, so I will be returning it.--EDIT--I had been sent a replacement book. It arrived sooner than expected, and it came in a much better condition than the first one I ordered. Now, I can read the book properly without getting distracted by a bunch of wrinkles.I have been doing character design for a couple of years and was mostly self-taught. This book has been a really good resource to reference when I need a refresher. It has everything I need to know in one place. Also, I was able to learn some new things from the many examples that this book has. I would highly recommend this book to both beginners and professionals.

I am blown away from the amount of info in this book. There’s so much I’ll be rereading it many times over. I’ve been drawing and creating since I can remember but was never taught the fundamentals revealed to me in this book, not even after having a bachelors degree in graphic design.So, now that I’ve realized my passion is illustration, I wanted to get into the digital part of it and actually finish the creatures/ characters I work on. This book is perfect for those who don’t know much about character design AND for those who know their stuff because I’ve learned time and time again that even if you’re a professional at something it’s VITAL to remind yourself of the fundamentals. This has everything you need in one book. I have learned SO much from this. Thank you!