Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
Exaggerating Facial Expressions
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Exaggerating Facial Expressions
Overview
“Exaggerating your expressions and gestures helps you communicate more clearly and emphasize the emotion your character is feeling. In this lesson, I’ll discuss how to implement this into your process. ”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Exaggerating Facial Expressions, 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
“Exaggerating Facial Expressions Exaggeration is a great way to emphasize a character's emotion. In this lesson, we’ll learn how to use that effectively. Let’s get started. Let's talk about facial expressions. I want to talk about how we can push a character's expression by trying different things with their eyebrows, mouth, etcetera. These things can sound obvious, but let's talk about it and look at it visually. We can exaggerate other parts like hand gestures because a lot of times the facial expression, or not a lot of times, I should say the facial expression along with the body languag...”
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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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