Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
Face Expressions
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Face Expressions
Overview
“In this lesson, you’re going to establish your character’s features by drawing a few different expressions. ”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Face 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
“Face Expressions In this lesson, we'll create a few facial expressions. This is how we establish the features of our character as well as start to build out a character sheet. Let's begin. Now that we're done with our color pass, we'll jump into doing some head turns. It's a term that some people use, but we're doing some different facial expressions. Before I do that, I want to point out this is the final artwork here. I changed the background color. I'm going for this 1960s vibes, and this minty green goes nicely with the color palette that I'm using for her. I also made some adjustments ...”
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Course summary for: Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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