Character Design Quarterly 32
Found a better price? Request a price match
Character Design Quarterly 32
Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide.
Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide.
Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision-making that go into creating amazing characters. Learn new ways to develop your own ideas and discover from the artists what it is like to work for prolific animation studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks.
One of 3dtotal's favourite contributing artists, Simone Grnewald from Germany, shares her wealth of knowledge and talent with CDQ in this issue. She contributes a beautiful cover design, an insightful interview, and an inspiring tutorial showing us how she created the cover artwork.
Also in this issue, LA-based artist Chelsea Blecha discusses how to effectively use lighting to enhance your character designs, while Kate Pellerin (aka Poopikat), who has over 166k followers on Instagram and lives in Toronto, Canada, reimagines the character of Alice from Alice in Wonderland in an in-depth tutorial.
Series: Character Design Quarterly
View allBook Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781915992116
Publisher: 3DTotal Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 May 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: 3DTotal Publishing Ltd
Illustration: B&W and color illustrations throughout
Contributors:
- Edited by 3dtotal Publishing
- Cover design or artwork by Simone Grnewald
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 208.0mm
Height: 269.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 104
About the Author
Cover artist Simone Grnewald, from Germany and also known as 'Schmoe', is a passionate illustrator and well-known art director, character designer, 2D animator, and key art storyboarder working in the games industry. She creates emotive designs that document her life, including the experiences of motherhood, in addition to her commercial work. Simone has a wealth of knowledge in both traditional and digital art and shares her insights with her global audience via increasingly popular social-media accounts, including Instagram (611K followers), Facebook (11K followers), Substack (Schmoe's Cosy Art Club, over 4K subscribers). She also has 4.8K following her art courses on Domestika. Simone is the author of Sketch Every Day and Draw What You Love (both published by 3dtotal Publishing).
Originally a digital artist's resource website, 3dtotal has grown into an industry-leading art-book publisher. Renowned for creating high-quality, inspirational, and practical tutorial books with some of the best artists working in the movie, games, animation, and publishing industries, 3dtotal Publishing sets the standard for modern art books.
More from Arts & Culture
View allWhy buy from us?
Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!
Service & Delivery
Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books, toys, board games and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.
Auckland Bookstore
We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.
Our Gifting Service
Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.
