Creative Character Design for Products
What Will We Do on this Course?
A course by Rob Flowers , Illustrator
About the video: What Will We Do on this Course?
Overview
“In this lesson, we will look at character design and how we interact with it every day. I will show you some of my favourite character designs where he lives. ”
In this video lesson Rob Flowers addresses the topic: What Will We Do on this Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Character Design for Products. Develop a cohesive set of characters to apply to any kind of object using Adobe Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“What will we do on this Course? Consciously or not, we interact with characters every day. Now we'll look at how we interact with them and my favourites from where I live. We engage with character design all the time, it is a very inherent human nature. We think about it in terms of commerce, but it is very universal and human. Let's start with Kilroy. Kilroy has a quite disputed history, he has a different names depending on where you live. Kilroy always has common design traits. He's always peering over a wall with a really long nose, often accompanied by the phrase "Kilroy was here". Dep...”
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Course summary for: Creative Character Design for Products
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Rob Flowers
A course by Rob Flowers
Rob Flowers is a London-based illustrator who specializes in character design. He’s been a freelance illustrator for over fifteen years, a period in which he has created illustrations for TV commercials, music videos, fashion collections, newspapers, magazines, and even edible posters.
Throughout his career, his illustrations have been published in The New York Times, Time Out, Hollywood Reporter, and Creative Review; in advertising campaigns for Converse, Maynard Bassetts, ASOS, Heely’s, Red Bull, and Pull&Bear; and through collaborations with brands like Nike, Mambo, and Wolf & Badger. He has also designed and directed music videos for Kaiser Chiefs and Tinie Tempah.
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