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Character Sketch: A Drawing Course for Costume Designers

Autor Helen Q Huang
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mar 2018
Character Sketch outlines a theory of costume rendering that explores how a designer conceptualizes and creates a character on the page. Beginning with how to develop a sense of character through active, gestural poses, this book explores and explains the process of drawing and painting from rough sketch to finished rendering.
Helen Q. Huang 黄其智, an award-winning costume designer for more than 25 years, breaks down her process, from understanding body proportions and active poses to applying research and color concepts to renderings. Her step-by-step watercolor painting techniques cover mixing skin tones, blending colors, and applying paint in different methods for a variety of fabric textures and patterns.
Showcasing how to capture a character on the page, Character Sketch is a must-read for any costume designer looking to communicate their artistic vision.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138891968
ISBN-10: 1138891967
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 210 x 280 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Table of Contents

Introduction: The act of drawing is the act of design


Part 1: Creating the Sketch

Proportion of the figure

Gesture Sketches

Core Masses of the Figure
The Head and Face
Arms and legs
Hand and foot
Feet and shoes

The Costume Sketch: Step-by-Step

Finding the Pose for the character

The Expression of Pencil Strokes

Part 2: Watercolor Techniques
Tools: Paint
Brushes
Paper
Techniques:
Painting Skin
Flat Wash
Wet-on-Wet
Dry Brush
Painting Wool
Painting Black Costumes
Painting White Costumes
Painting Patterns
Watercolor Techniques in Practice

Part 3: Putting Skills into Practice
Doodling
Gestural Poses
Grouping
Incorporating Research
Color Concepts
Part 4: Costume Sketch Gallery

Notă biografică

Helen Q. Huang 黄其智has designed costumes for theaters throughout the United States and abroad. The recipient of both the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design and the Ivey Awards, she is also a professor of the MFA Costume Design Program in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Helen’s design work has been exhibited as part of “Costume at the Turn of the Century” at the A.A. Bakhrushin Museum in Moscow; in the exhibition “Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance” at the New York Public Library and Lincoln Center; and the Prague Quadrennial. She has designed internationally for the China National Opera House, and China Central Television. Nationally she has designed for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Guthrie Theater, George Street Playhouse, The Classic Stage Company New York, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Syracuse Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, The Arden Theatre, Disney Creative Entertainment, and Boston Lyric Opera. Her designs in the Washington, D.C. region have included work for The Washington Ballet, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Folger Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Olney Theatre.

Descriere

Character Sketch outlines a theory of costume rendering that explores how a designer conceptualizes and creates a character on the page. Beginning with how to create a character through gestural poses, the book explores and explains the use of line, shape, color, proportion, and texture with different mediums. Color concept and color control are also discussed, along with step-by-step painting techniques that demonstrate how to convey the character and costume designs. This book codifies Helen Huang’s acclaimed method of using creative imagination to make costumes "magic garments" that help transport the actor to a different time, place, and character.