Category Archives: Character Design

Free Figure Reference for Designers and Artists

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: May 1, 2008

If you are a budding artists, character designer or illustrator there are bound to be times when you need human figure reference. I was recently looking for some books to help with figure drawing and showed different poses but in the process of searching came across a website that could really help. Characterdesigns.com is a [...]

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Lessons in Character Design

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: November 19, 2007

As some of you may know I am a big fan of character design and try to keep an eye on what is going on online. I discovered Cedric Hohnstadt’s website and blog a little while ago and thought it was worth a mention. What I like about Cedric’s site is the way he [...]

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Jon Burgerman, Character Designer

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: August 23, 2007

I have like the character designs of Jon Burgerman since I first saw them in Computer Arts magazine. His character designs are very child like using thick black line and bright colours. Over on Youtube I found an interesting clip where Jon Burgerman created a black and white mural in Derby UK using the people [...]