Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
Polishing the Character
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Polishing the Character
Overview
“When sketching on paper you often finish the drawing by inking in the final lines. In this lesson, you’re going to do just that but in a digital space. Let’s get to it! ”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Polishing the Character, 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
“Polishing the Character In this lesson, we'll start polishing our character. Another way to think of it is like inking our pencil line. Let’s see how that works. In this lesson, let's go ahead and start tightening up the lines in our sketch. Make sure that the lines, the structure and the detail is all well-defined, in the digital inking process, like doing a pencil drawing and then inking it, Essentially we'll be doing that here in a digital workspace. Depending on the look you want, you could use a very smooth pen. I like this pencil texture. I want it to feel like a sketch. For my inking...”
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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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