Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
Narrative Sketches
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Narrative Sketches
Overview
“Narrative sketching or drawing is a piece of work that captures a particular moment in a story. In this lesson let's dive into effective ways of achieving this in your character illustration.”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Narrative Sketches , 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
“Narrative Sketches As we begin the sketching portion of this course, one thing to think about is how to bring story to your character pose. Let's talk about the importance of narrative sketches and see how that can help in the creative process. In this lesson, we'll take a look at narrative sketches. We'll talk about the idea behind what we're drawing. As we've been talking about that a bit, I want to visually show you some examples of that. In the last lesson, we looked at some early explorations and thumbnails of my idea. I talked about the idea of this girl, from the 1960s, she'll be on ...”
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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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