Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Time as a design variable
A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator
About the video: Time as a design variable
Overview
“In a brief way we will explain how it is necessary to give freedom to the design of our character in the first exploration time so that he can find his own form little by little. ”
In this video lesson Gastón Caba addresses the topic: Time as a design variable, 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 see something very simple, but that will give us a little more freedom of work, the idea is that the design is going to be a variable of time, that is, that if I took some decisions regarding the proportions, with respect to the features, with respect to the elements that function as a constructive principle, that in this case we had the lenses, the handkerchief, the book when we start working as we are going to do in the next unit generating many images that will do, that each of the images have a somewhat special requirement then we have to give a certain level of f...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
-
Category
Illustration -
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.
- 100% positive reviews (219)
- 2,831 students
- 17 lessons (2h 26m)
- 9 additional resources (3 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever