Character Design Quarterly issue 27

Character Design Quarterly issue 27CDQ 27 is packed with ideas and inspiration, a whole host of tutorials, interviews, and gallery artwork from professional artists all across the globe. We welcome Dave Guertin back to CDQ as he shows us how he created this issue's engaging cover and talks about his process and career. Also in this issue, the mythical Sandman is reimaged by Flor De Jager, and Jay Kim tackles our Characterize This challenge. We also talked to CDQ alumni Jordi la Febre

plus a project by Mitch Leeuwe

Jahirul Amin

and settings

Simplify the human head into angular sections of shadow or light that represent the main landmarks and volumes required to convey an accurate masculine face in your artwork or sculpting (figure height 17cm / 6

Fantasy Artist

Floriane Marchix chats to us about visual development on animated feature films

Matte painting mythology Games developer Rasmus Berggreen shares some handy matte painting tips which he used to create this month’s Project Overview image

Photoreal texturing tips

and meet the man behind the stunning cover art

ISBN: 978-1-912843-39-8

and hundreds of lavishly presented images

Snowstorm by Carlos Cabrera