Cartoon-Style Character Design with Procreate
Influences
A course by Ed Vill , Illustrator and designer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“My style has been influenced by various times and factors, here I share some of them.”
In this video lesson Ed Vill addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cartoon-Style Character Design with Procreate. Learn how to create a character for brands starting from a pencil sketch right up to the digital illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Now that I've talked about myself, I'll tell you about my influences. I was raised by television, I must be honest with you. I love cartoons. I have some favorites and as I grew up, I realized that advertising without cartoons is a little incomplete. I love everything that has to do with the cartoons of the '50s and '60s because graphic synthesis had completely seduced the planet. In the movies, animation was more complex than on television and on TV it was necessary for drawings to be much more synthesized. Since then, I have become a researcher of the popular culture of those y...”
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Course summary for: Cartoon-Style Character Design with Procreate
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Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Ed Vill
A course by Ed Vill
Ed Vill was born in Caracas (Venezuela), although he has been living in Mexico since 2016. He considers himself a cartoon enthusiast and has turned his passion into a profession by creating custom cartoon characters.
This multidisciplinary illustrator and designer has also worked as a copywriter and photographer for print media, recorded albums, created radio and television shows, and launched his own design brand: EdVill. Currently, he illustrates children's books and teaches character creation workshops for children and adults.
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