Creative Character Design for Products
Prep for Messaging
A course by Rob Flowers , Illustrator
About the video: Prep for Messaging
Overview
“In this lesson, we are going to prepare our designs for social messaging. ”
In this video lesson Rob Flowers addresses the topic: Prep for Messaging , 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
“Prep for Messaging Now we'll prepare our designs for social messaging. Let's start with it. We've got our finalised character designs here. First, we need to change the colour mode of our document, because these stickers will exist in a digital application. So, we need to go to File, Document Colour Mode, RGB Color. We've changed that, there's not much difference, but we'll be able to change our colours to some of those special colours, such as neon or fluoro colours as well. But first we need to separate our artwork into separate artboards. I'm going to move them out to give us more space ...”
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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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