Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Playing with our design II
A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator
About the video: Playing with our design II
Overview
“We will see how accessories and other details often work as fundamental characteristics to define a character.”
In this video lesson Gastón Caba addresses the topic: Playing with our design II, 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 continue playing with our design. What we are going to do is bring an idea that is the one of the constructive principle. We could define it as those elements that are completely characteristic of my character. That if we as daring take them out the character stops being what it is and becomes something generic. So, it's very common to use some kind of accessory to make it work as a constructive principle. Let's think about the following example. If I have a cat, it's a simple kitten, but, if that cat I add some boots, What happens then? We have that universal charact...”
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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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