Cartoon-Style Character Design with Procreate
Deciding the personality
A course by Ed Vill , Illustrator and designer
About the video: Deciding the personality
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn to decide which characteristics and accessories represent the environment of the characters that we are going to draw, starting from the personality. ”
In this video lesson Ed Vill addresses the topic: Deciding the personality, 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
“Deciding on a personality In the previous lesson, we defined the features of our character. Now let's graph them with open figures. We will do a small study of each of the proportions, of the positions that our character might have. I'm going to make a map of the things that define my character. I'm going to put it here on my sheet. I know that my character is smart, we decided on that. He is skillful, and willing to work. Young, optimistic and motivated. These are my character's features. Now I’ll choose some postures that seem representative of my work. What is my job? What did we say? My...”
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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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