Turnarounds, expression sheets and callouts on measured guides, so a character stays the same character from the front, the side and the back.

A model sheet is a contract. It says: this is how tall she is, this is where the belt sits, this is the shape of the collar. Whether the reader is a client, an animator, a collaborator or you in three months, the job is to remove guesswork.

The landmark lines are the whole trick

Every turnaround carries the same horizontal guides — chin, shoulder, chest, navel, hip, knee — right across all four views, plus a head-unit ruler down the left. Draw the front view, then use the lines rather than your eye to place everything else. If a feature will not land on its line in the side view, the front view was wrong.

The back view is where most designs fall apart, because it is the one nobody draws for fun. It is also the view an animator or 3D artist needs most.

What's included

• Four-view turnarounds in 5 proportion systems (8, 7.5, 6.5, 5 and 3 heads)
• Expression sheets, 9 and 12 slots, with centre lines
• Hand study grid, 8 slots
• Prop and costume detail sheet
• Colour callout strip, 16 swatch boxes
• Every sheet as a transparent PNG at 4000x3091
• Guide: what a model sheet is for, how the guides work, filling them in

Formats

• PDF (Letter & A4 landscape)
• PNG (transparent, 4000×3091)

Works with

• Any PDF reader or printer
• Procreate
• Photoshop
• Clip Studio Paint
• Krita
• Affinity Photo

Download: ZIP · 0.9 MB · PDF + transparent PNG · Letter & A4