Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
Character Shapes and Construction
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Character Shapes and Construction
Overview
“Let's go over shapes and the role they play in the characters you create. You’ll also look at great examples of how major studios have implemented this idea into their work.”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Character Shapes and Construction, 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
“Character Shapes and Construction Shape language and construction play a significant role in the personality of our characters. In this lesson, we'll take a look at that. We'll also take a look at some examples of effective character design shapes. Let's go ahead and look at how that works. Character Shapes & Construction We've carved out a good chunk of the things that we need to figure out before getting started. One more thing I want us to consider is shape language. Shape language is another quick way that we can quickly communicate a story and who our character is. For example, sha...”
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Course summary for: Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
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Category
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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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