Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality
Other Poses
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Other Poses
Overview
“Now that you established expressions let's take it a step further and draw the character in a couple of other poses. This will help build up their personality. ”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Other Poses, 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
“Other Poses Now that we've established the look of our character, it'll be fun to put them in different situations. This will help us define their personality a bit. Let's take a look. In this lesson, I wanted to start off with a sped-up video because I'm outlining everything. I wanted to talk about how to do these alternate poses. Continue to keep in mind the facial features of your character, the physical features of their body, their outfit and things like that. Make sure that things are consistent. For example, I used the main pose here and I tweaked it a bit, so feel free to do that. I...”
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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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