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Drawing and Rigging My First Character For My Resident Dragon, 2D Animated Web Series

This will be the definitive version of my TET Avatar character rig. F ollowing on from my introductory post to Building My Two Cartoon Web Series in this post I will be showing you the behind the scenes on the steps I'm following to draw and rig the first Resident Dragon character, TET, who is an avatar of myself. Typically you wouldn't start a web series by rigging characters but I've already scripted three of the six 2-3 minute episodes, and storyboarded the first two well over two years ago. Both storyboards are actually on my Instagram account if you dig far enough.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by David Arandle (@etourist.tet) The Easy Way to Draw Front Facing Human Characters Since all the characters for this series are pretty well defined in my Resident Dragon joke cartoons I'm able to start simply by sketching my first character in a front facing T-pose using my preferred bitmap drawing application, Krita . When drawing fro...