Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
Line of Action: Briefing
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Line of Action: Briefing
Overview
“Let's talk about one of the most important things to consider in the overall process of developing your character drawing, the line of action. ”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Line of Action: Briefing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality. Design and illustrate expressive characters using poses, gestures, and color palettes to tell stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“Line of Action: Briefing Before we do any drawing or sketching, there are a few fundamentals that we should talk about. The first one is the line of action. I'll start by showing you a few examples. Let's get started. Identifying & Understanding the LINE OF ACTION In this lesson, let's talk about what is pretty much the most important part of getting started in this course, line of action. Essentially, we should be able to explain the main idea in one stroke. Here are a couple of examples that we'll talk about. When we look at these poses, we can look for the line of action and we can d...”
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Course summary for: Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Joel Santana
A course by Joel Santana
Joel Santana is a character designer and illustrator, a collector of hats, and a married father with two kids. Throughout his career, he's done freelance work for Champs Sports, Walt Disney World Orlando, and other major clients. Joel's been published in the Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2016 and a full page in 2017, MTVnews.com and Huffington Post UK. He's also worked for in-house teams and advertising agencies creating illustrations for advertising, as well as packaging and toys.
Aside from creating, Joel has also mentored junior artists and co-workers, taught workshops, given talks to art students at local universities, reviewed products for Wacom, and participated in the local AIGA group speaking to young creatives.
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