Varun Nair

All views expressed in this comic is my opinion. Peace ✌️🕊️

Most people wouldn't care about Environmental issues until it effects them personally, and prefer to live in denial. Im no different.

Everyone gets a reality check sooner or later. I have had mine, and so I'm doing whatever little I can by drawing about this issue and making changes to my lifestyle.

I encourage all artists to draw and spread more awareness about this.

1. Strengthen your foundation. Lots of figure drawing, gesture drawings and sketching from life. This will improve your understanding of construction, rhythm, flow and most important of all your observation. (You should ideally, never stop doing this)

2. Do studies from the work of other character designers you like. This will help you build a library of shapes and a good sensibility for caricature. Do studies from multiple artists, not just one.

3. Use references. Think of a character designer as a costume designer + casting director + actor. It's important to feed yourself with as many references you can find for these 3 aspects before you start drawing.

4. Stay loose. Don't focus so much on making tidy, clean, rendered drawings. Especially during the early exploratory stages, its important to do lots of quick sketches (100s of them), your goal is to find the right acting and personality at this stage. Once it starts to feel like the character that fits the description you can focus on pushing the shapes, costume etc etc.

💥💥OUR GRADUATION FILM IS ONLINE!! 💥💥

We spent almost 10 months working on this and it has been one of the most amazing experiences I have had making a short. Kudos to the team @shen--yi @nicholasolivieri Juliana de Lucca and David Feliu