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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... Read More
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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.

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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.

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Book 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

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Character Design Quarterly

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.

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