All language subtitles for 087 Designing Your Character Costume.en

All right.

In this lecture we're going to dive deeper into costume design.

And this is also going to include hair design as well.

So let's go ahead and begin.

So when it comes to your costume design your costume is all about telling the story of your character

so where they've been where they've come from and where they're going stuff like that you know and also

to tell a lot about their personality.

So these two things are very important.

So when thinking about this first off we need to figure out what the theme of our character is and kind

of look like where are they from what time period or what kind of world are they from they from an alien

world are they from medieval times or something like that.

Because once we have that then we and we have our character sort of body designed out.

So right here you can say have a body for my character and is kind of a simple face and we're gonna

go ahead and further enhance this character designed by adding a costume to him.

Now the theme and the time period of my character is going to be kind of a pirate theme.

I might kind of fantasize this a little bit more make it a little bit more magical or something like

that but it's basically going to kind of be pirate themed.

You can see that is sort of holding a sword that I just very roughly sketched out but that probably

won't be what the final sword looks like.

So the first thing we want to do is we want to make sure that we have a reference and that we do our

research.

So you don't have to do a ton of research but it's a good idea to go ahead and look at other artists

artwork and see what they're doing and also look up reference for different parts of the costume so

you can look at a few different photographs of pirates you can for for this example you could look at

pirates and you could also look at different pieces of the cost scene you could look at different hairstyles

stuff like that.

And what I like to do is I like to take all my reference and put it on a board so you can see right

here on this page I have a bunch of photographs that I've taken off the Internet that I really liked.

So we have Jack Sparrow right here he's just some good reference just kind of look at different parts

of his costume.

I kind of like this hair so we might kind of mimic something similar to that.

I like the tattoo on this girl's arms and I really like her sword.

I like this guy's beard and I kind of like this guy's mustache and beard as well.

And this is kind of a cool looking piece right there as well.

So I want to kind of take all this and put it in my character design but change it up add some things

that are my own and really make it my own character design.

This is all just for reference and inspiration but we don't want to copy any of it because this isn't

our work.

All right.

So a good place to find reference is going to be Google images or Pinterest.

So many of you probably have a Pinterest.

That's an excellent place because people have already accumulated kind of the best of the best reference

out there for whatever it is you're trying to draw.

And also if you go on google images you can find a lot more historically accurate things.

So for example I found this costume piece right there on Google images.

So Google Images I would say is better for stuff like that and maybe even hairstyles.

But then when it comes to kind of more art type stuff.

So for example this piece right here so if I'm looking for to see what other artists have done for this

type of a character design I would go to Pinterest that's a really good place to see inspirational pieces

of reference for your character designs.

All right.

So once you've kind of created your board of different parts and I might even go and grab a few more

throughout this lecture Miko grab some reference of a sword or something like that.

But once you have all your reference and go ahead and begin.

So all you need is really a body form.

This is just really the costume design.

This isn't necessarily a full on character design so this wouldn't be necessarily considered the very

final drawing for a character because as you can see his pose is an incredibly dynamic it's pretty just

straight and UN dynamic.

We have some dynamical lines in there but other than that it's pretty boring.

So this is just it's a lot easier to design your character's costume when they're not in some dynamic

crazy pose so that you really get a good idea of the entire costume it shapes its forms and then from

there you can redraw your characters in different poses and kind of change up their costume to match

that pose.

So once you have some sort of a character form drawn out next where you're gonna want to do it you're

going to want to just start doodling.

So if you're doing this digitally it's a lot easier because you have multiple layers if you're not doing

it digitally just make sure that you draw lightly when you start to rough in your costume.

So what I'll do is as I'm drawing I'll just kind of try out different things and I'll probably raise

a lot of stuff and off to the side screen.

I actually am looking at that reference that I just showed you and I'll just continue looking at that

and looking for things that I like trying different things.

And that's really what the costume design process is all about.

So let's go ahead and begin.

So an example would be that one costume piece that I showed you this one right here.

It might be kind of cool to start with that.

So I'll kind of put something on him like this and see how that looks.

Now this is something that you really have to kind of work at.

So you want to make sure that you get the perspective right and stuff like that.

So I'll probably start off with kind of the neckline of what this would be

so perhaps something like that and then I'm going to go ahead and decide where it's going to kind of

be split open

so maybe something like that

and maybe in this case I'll kind of leave his open a little bit more so he can kind of see his chest

so that means I can go ahead and you race out that line right there and I'll go and zoom in so we can

kind of see what's going on a little bit better

and then it doesn't really have any shoulders so it just kind of comes around down his pec

and all of this will just kind of get smoothed out.

Right about to their

brown that over the shoulder

part seems kind of flat out like that.

There's kind of a back part and then a front part

it's go ahead and add in the laces

something like that so it was a good idea to kind of zoom out see so things are looking.

So this is kind of cool looking.

I think what I want to do so I want to kind of change up the collar and try something else.

I feel like it's a little bit too tall.

So what we can try doing is maybe shortening it a little bit.

I like that better.

And some stitches out there.

Remember that this is a character costume design.

So we're not necessarily doing a full final finished image of our character.

So that means this doesn't have to be perfectly finished and polished doesn't have to be a final drawing.

That means it can be a little bit rough.

You do want to make sure you get all the detail in there because costumes have a lot of detail on them

but you do have to make your line quality perfect or anything like that at this point we're just designing

a costume.

I kind of like the idea of leaving him sleeveless work to do is kind of make it look like his sleeves

have been torn

something like that.

Now something I'm noticing is on this side that's kind of hanging over shoulder a lot further and you

might notice it over here.

It's not as long.

And so I need to correct that right now.

So just go ahead using our race or we'll just erase this out because what I did is I kind of followed

this pack muscle but that's incorrect if I want it to match the other one.

He's kind of come out a little bit further like that

also straighten this line out because this is kind of a thick leather type of garment.

And so I think that it would be a little bit straighter and stiffer

and adding that rip sleeve

screen zoom out.

See how this looks.

It's looking pretty good.

Go ahead and give him.

Let's give him some boots.

So looking at my reference to Jack Sparrow he has some pretty cool boots so I'll kind of copy something

similar to that so it looks like they come up just right below his knees.

And they have these great big sort of flaps at round around the entire boot that hangs down

just like that and I can go ahead and sketch in the rest of the boot so the rest of his boot really

kind of scrunch up into each other.

Kind of something like that I think that actually looks a lot better so go ahead and redo the other

one like the same way I just did it

go and draw.

He also will extend a little bit further than the bottom of the foot.

That's looking pretty good.

Then we go ahead and do some pants for the pants.

I don't want them to be super tight.

So in a draw I'm kind of bunching up down here like this

right.

Most gonna go ahead and extend this top garment out a little bit more.

It's looking pretty good.

All right let's go ahead and let's try moving on to his hair and his beard.

So if we come back to our reference like I said I really like this guy's hair right here.

So I try to incorporate something similar to that.

So give him kind of a widow's peak right there at the center of his head.

And it looks like from about here it just kind of pulls back like that.

Also what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and get myself a little bit more space up here.

Perhaps it doesn't look as good as I want it so go out and try doing that

so again we kind of get this hair that pulls back like that.

That's kind of the direction of that part of the hair

kind of get a braid that comes around near the ear.

So let's start that braid from the ear.

Kind of like I seen the reference.

I haven't come around like this.

I wouldn't come around like that.

Just kind of sketch that and its braids and then we have hair that kind of comes down into that braid

like that.

Go ahead and kind of square up the side of the hair a little bit more.

Feels a little bit better.

Sorry kind of starting to get kind of a cone head so I fixed that

and then he gets hair that.

Well first off he gets kind of this little ponytail back here.

I'm not sure how much of that you're gonna really be able to see

and then he gets this hair that kind of dangles down in front of his chest

right.

So go ahead and kind of reset where we know this hair is gonna go

do the same thing.

On the other side

go ahead and kind of center that ponytail in the back a little bit more.

That's kind of cool.

Let's go ahead and give him a beard.

So I really like this beard right here.

Kind of like the mustache on this guy.

And we'll see if it kind of makes it up

so his beard you kind of get really want to think about it as shapes and forms not individual hairs.

So you can go and start by sketching in the mustache.

When first start by doing this guy with the braided beard see how that mustache looks like on him

right.

Well go ahead and give him his goatee

and we'll go ahead and have his beard

hanging down like this.

You have to go back in and raise a few things here and there.

That's all right.

Then I'm going to go ahead and just kind of sketch out where I want these braids to hang down.

Something like that just so I have a rough idea and that way I can also go ahead and kind of race out

those areas

and I can go to just sketch in those braids like this

but it should be getting the idea of how this costume design is done.

So what I'm gonna do now is going to go ahead and speed this up.

So you want to watch this entire thing in real time

and so I'll see you when I'm done.

All right.

There we go.

So there's kind of a rough concept.

I mean it's not actually that rough.

They're just kind of a concept for our characters costume design.

So that's what costume design is all about is it's about creating a concept.

Getting those details in there you know have to do a dynamic pose or anything like that because you're

just trying to figure out what their costume is how it's telling their story where they're from and

you can tell just by looking at this character for example you can tell he's kind of a pirate who's

got a pistol he's got a pirate sword he's kind of got some pirate boots on.

I'm kind of has sort of the Spanish sort of garment top on and he almost has a little bit of Viking

in them his beard kind of looks very Viking like and his hair looks very Viking like and then you have

this octopus tattoo on his arms.

You know he's probably from the sea you know so all these things are telling you information about this

character and that's what the character design is all about and especially the costume is what information

re giving your viewer about your character.

All right.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.