Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
Weight and Balance
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Weight and Balance
Overview
“Putting your character in interesting and expressive poses is vital to creating an image that pulls the viewer in. But without a solid understanding of weight and balance, it could feel a little “off”. Let’s talk about it! ”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Weight and Balance, 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
“Weight and Balance Understanding of how weight and balance work is really important, especially when we want to exaggerate and push our character's pose. Let's take a look at how they work together. In this lesson, we'll take a look at weight and balance to help us understand the proper distribution of weight in our character. We'll briefly talk about the center of gravity and how to maintain believability in our pose even as we exaggerate our gesture. I really wanna talk about exaggeration quite a bit, because it really does apply to everything, from facial expressions to the overall body ...”
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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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