Now I'm studying at course of CGart school - "Concept-art course - character design". It takes a month (2 lessons per week), in the end we'll get good detailed character.
I took Artyom as a base of a character ^^
+++The first lesson's homework:+++
1. Describe your char in 3-4 sentences.
-- Time: future
Place: far away Earth-type planet with radiation on its surface. People live under ground.
He is scientist-biologist, the director of his company (CORMO i mean). He explores the animals who produce the radiation, with his team.
Slim, around 40years, whitehaired, wear glasses on the head.
2. --page of character's references
--page of environment references
--page of influence references
All 3 pages you see here.
3. 30 silhouettes with basic design (more in the next post).
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Personally I took not so much useful information from the first lesson, one of it is creating from a black spot and forget about details in the first step.
After the lesson I've found more useful and FREE lectures on Youtube =_=
But it's the only one lesson left. We'll see what happen later.