REVIEW: Character Design Quarterly, 23 (magazine issue)

Character Design Quarterly is a magazine, although each issue has its own ISBN and it's possible to purchase individual issues, which is how I ended up with this one.

Review:

I enjoyed the other issue of this publication that I read, so I decided to pick up a few more. This issue features:

- An interview with Kenneth Anderson about his art and career
- A step-by-step look at Kenneth Anderson's process for creating the cover art
- A step-by-step look at Angel Ren's process for creating a white lion rock guitarist
- An interview with Dave Guertin
- A step-by-step tutorial on Kaining Wang's process for creating a pair of characters meant to work together as a team in an ongoing narrative
- A tutorial from Nathanna Érica focused on color schemes
- A gallery of artwork by Raahat Kaduji, Paige McMorrow, and Maxine Vee
- A character design tutorial from Michaela Nienaber, focused on the creation of a stylized anthropomorphic character using the keywords "engineer, plant, excite."
- An interview with Jackie Droujko
- A tutorial from Eléonore Pelluau on the creation of an anthropomorphic vegetable character intended for a younger audience
- A step-by-step look at Marjolaine Roller's process for creating a reimagining of the Bluebeard character for a younger audience
- Insider the cover flap, there's a tutorial from Lorenzo Etherington on creating flip-shape characters

I don't have anything new to say about this. As usual, it's got great artwork and a nice look at several different artists' process for creating various kinds of characters.