– Hamm starts every figure as a bean bag or a blob of clay. He teaches you that shape equals character . A triangle body is a sneaky villain. A pear shape is a bumbling cop. A series of circles is a chubby kid. The PDF is gold because you can quickly flip back to his "shape dictionary" while designing your own characters.
Extensive breakdown of eyes, noses, ears, and mouths.
He also covers the "Clothing fold." He identifies exactly 7 types of folds (Pipe, Zigzag, Spiral, etc.) and shows where they occur on the body. After reading this section, your characters will no longer look like stiff mannequins wearing paper bags.
A detailed catalog showing how to depict extreme and subtle emotions.