Creating Dynamic Characters from Loose Sketches

Alaine Baybayan is a character designer and animator on "My Adventures with Superman". She focuses on stylized, dynamic art, emphasizing foundational anatomy. Using references—from photos, life, or 3D models—is key to improving her work. She starts with loose sketches, often focusing on a hand or head, and builds around that. Tools like Clip Studio and Procreate help her plan perspective and composition. Practicing gestures and warming up before work helps her understand how the body works in different positions, making her art more dynamic and alive.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
01:02 - Alaine’s Digital Sketchbook
25:47 - Outro

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Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high-quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.

CREDITS:

Editing - Sierra Tillman, Charlie Nicholson
Publishing - John Birchall, Alex Otis

Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Additional music by Epidemic Sound

[ProkoTV]

Don't miss your chance to improve your own sketching skills with our holiday sketch challenge. Details at proko.com/challenge

[dizzyhungry]

I really like her forms, they feel very 3D but also quite dynamic

[soulvz]

First time seeing a digital sketchbook tour and it's pretty neat :)

[yeetusthefetus]

I love her already! Her artstyle is pretty amazing and the perspectives are awesome

[ghengis]

I'm loving this sketchbook tour stuff. I dunno if its just for the holidays, but this should honestly be a recurring segment indefinitely.
Also, yall have your comics course right now and its fantastic, but I'm wondering if you've ever thought about maybe doing something like that for manga? I know there's a huge market for manga, and plenty of people who start learning to draw specifically because of anime and manga, so i feel like some content about it would be well received.

[SketchPLAY]

Would love to see more Eastern Asian style Game Designers, Manga artists, Character designers here. The Eastern style is highly influential and inspirational.

[khv]

i am obsessed with alaine’s work and i was so excited to see this!!! id love to see her animation process one day 💕

[mercurygatorade]

Love her work been following for like 5+ years

[saliibajj]

Alaine Baybayan brings sketches to life with dynamic poses and bold anatomy! ✍ Truly inspiring! 🔥🎨

[VoidBringer_]

Such dynamic poses!! Its insane! Also thanks so much for the reference drop. Im going to test out a couple of poses from that Pose Maniac place. Always great to get more resources

[Chessbox]

This was so helpful and informative. Love her approach and her gestural heavy approach to character design. Thank you Proko, this channel is a godsend.🙂

[NKidd.Artist]

Oh woah! I was looking at her work on her Instagram like last week! Crazy timing!!!

[barleebread]

This was so fun, to see Alaine!! Thank you for sharing your process. Very inspiring!!

[AnimationInGames]

Alaine! I bought her book and a Superman Art at Lightbox Expo 2024! Amazing art!

[michaeltemple]

Thank you for sharing the love and knowledge

[TSOMTSOMTSOM]

Really nice. Great characters from a great character.

[AMStudios]

Wow, Alaine is excellent.. I'm going to follow her!

[alitabaker]

As soon as I saw the Alita Art I had to give a like

[Music_Inspo]

I really like the animation on that superman show

[Karisma_tic]

Digital sketchbook tours should be a thing !