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In this lecture we're going to start talking about costumes so costumes is a very broad spectrum of

information they need to understand when it comes to character design and what I'd like to do is when

I start designing my own CHARACTERS COSTUMES.

I'd like to start to break it down into their shapes so before I even figure out what they're exactly

going to be wearing what kind of items are going to be on that part of their costume.

I like to figure out what are the shapes that are gonna be in their costume and the sizes and stuff

like that.

And this can change as you start to design your costume more detail but it's just kind of to get kind

of that shape language going and figuring stuff like that out.

So what I'd like to do is I usually like to either just start doodling sort of forms human forms and

then adding the shapes of the costume on top of that or I can just draw a single human form over and

over again or if I'm in photoshop I can just kind of copy that over like you can see that I have right

here.

Now if you want for this lecture for practice you can go ahead and download these forms so that way

you can kind of create your own shapes for your costumes.

But I recommend that when you're drawing your own actual costume designs your characters that you draw

your own forms that kind of are similar to your character's body form and type.

It doesn't have to be in a super dynamic pose or anything like that.

It's just kind of start getting those ideas crossed.

OK so let's go and begin.

So just like when we block out anything with shapes it's just we want to think about those super super

simple shapes so for example we could imagine if your hair is kind of coming off like this

right.

That's pretty interesting looking and we can try different things we can keep playing around with that

we maybe we can kind of put like that maybe your hair kind of hangs down like this and can add these

triangles or cones whatever you want to call them

right.

And you should have in mind a decent idea of who your character is and what they might be wearing.

We'll talk about more about research here in a sec in the next lecture.

But for now we're just focusing on those shapes right.

So maybe we put her in kind of a big gown like this that kind of just flows right off her shoulders

and maybe this is a sleeveless sleeveless costume.

And so her arms are just kind of stick out through little slits on the sides.

Maybe these have kind of big shoulder pads like that

right.

So just kind of giving those general shapes and their

but it doesn't have to be super detailed and what we can do to kind of make that stand out a little

bit more is we can go ahead and kind of shade this in.

All right.

Something like that just kind of help it along a little bit more.

Let's see.

Let's move on to the next one so let's make this one completely different.

So when you're doing your characters are probably to be kind of similar when you're designing their

costumes going to try out different things but let's try something completely different you're going

to do a completely different style of character.

So let's say this character kind of has sort of a big hairdo kind of coming off the back and her face

is kind of angled that a three quarters view and so that's what we're kind of getting this difference

in the hair cell back here

right.

Maybe we'll give her some shoulder pads the big pointy

maybe like a triangle neckline like that

we will put kind of like a wrap around her waist

and we can always erase things or undo things so we can try all kinds of different things right.

Something like that.

It's kind of cool.

Then I'll go ahead and you race out in front of the legs that can tell that the legs are in front of

this back part of the costume

get some boots

all right.

So again you're sticking to those super simple shapes.

Try all kinds of different things you could try a circle for the hairstyle.

Let's try something like that.

See if we could try something you can do some really angled shoulders.

Shoulder pads like that

and this isn't just necessarily about shape it's also about that line.

So if you just have single lines kind of coming off that's also All right.

Just trying to get those angles in those shapes and those volumes in their

I mean this one just kind of some shin guards

all right.

And you're going to want to do a lot of these.

Sometimes it's just going to look terrible but just play around with those shapes as much as possible.

That's what this is all about this is all about experimentation.

So just keep on experimenting.

Let's try one where maybe our character is wearing kind of a hood so maybe kind of a big triangle thing

like that

there's your hood it has a wrap that kind of comes all the way down her body like this and she's kind

of lost in there

she's got kind of like a smashing down like the

maybe she's kind of wearing a cape

or something like that really just playing around with those shapes.

No like we just kind of rectangle back there for the Cape triangle up here for the hood kind of this

rectangular trapezoid shape for this wrap that kind of goes around her neck and chest area right.

So really just playing with all these different types of shapes and just trying to figure out what it

is we want the costume to look like.

And from there we can go ahead and tweak things change things.

Look at some reference do some research on a culture or history and further our design but shape is

a good place to start when it comes to costume design because you don't have to necessarily get into

the nitty gritty of drawing the actual material or the fabric or all the tiny intricate designs on the

costume yet you're just focusing on kind of those broad shapes.

So I recommend that you do this go ahead download the resource if you need to and do a couple of your

own sort of shape designs for your costume.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

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