Creative Character Design for Products
Sketching Ideas 1
A course by Rob Flowers , Illustrator
About the video: Sketching Ideas 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll start by sketching on a piece of paper. This is always the starting point for a project, roughing out thumbnails. ”
In this video lesson Rob Flowers addresses the topic: Sketching Ideas 1, 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
“Sketching Ideas Sketching is step one for any projects, roughing out ideas and developing concepts. We should've identified a theme and some ideas for our characters. Let's start with it. I wanted to give you an insight into why I'll be showing you certain characters, why I'm designing them that way and what they're inspired by. I live in a seaside town in Britain called Margate, but actually in a smaller area just outside called Cliftonville, so I'm gonna use Margate and Cliftonville interchangeably, but it's the same area, it's on the British seaside. This is a picture of it in its heyday...”
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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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