Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Playing with our design I
A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator
About the video: Playing with our design I
Overview
“We will see how the different combinatorics of geometries and proportions of the parts that make up the character can generate style.”
In this video lesson Gastón Caba addresses the topic: Playing with our design I, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters. Create a narrative universe for your characters based on your own experiences.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will start playing with some variables of the design of these characters. And that will also help us start multiplying Design options for a single character. One of the questions most asked by people who have just started to design characters or to make illustrations, is that they want to have their own style and playing with these features that we are going to see now, We can approach the idea of different styles. One of the first design elements that we are going to see It is the internal geometry of the character. What we are going to observe is what is the geometry of...”
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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Creativity
Gastón Caba
A course by Gastón Caba
Gastón Caba is an illustrator, character designer, pattern designer and teacher. He currently lives and works in the city of Quilmes, Buenos Aires. His designs and characters are internationally recognized for his cheerful and colorful style and he has worked for brands such as Adidas, Benetton, Diesel, Coca-Cola, Orange or Sony Playstation, among others.
In 2005 he created an ambitious project called Ping Pong Remix, in which he invited more than 70 artists from around the world to reinterpret his work.
From 2010 he started with his project We Love Patterns, a series of group and individual illustration courses in companies and colleges and in 2011 he joined the teaching team of Daniel Roldán's illustration department at the UBA.
Since 2015 he has collaborated in the magazine Anorak with his adorable character Round Bunny, a classic strip of four panels and in 2016 Round Bunny became the protagonist of the book "Churro, the rabbit" edited by Edelvives.
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