Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Diary of emotions and experiences
A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator
About the video: Diary of emotions and experiences
Overview
“Starting from the emojis of WhatsApp we will explore the emotions of our character. Then we will begin to transform our own experiences into drawn scenes.”
In this video lesson Gastón Caba addresses the topic: Diary of emotions and experiences, 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
“Well now we have a lot of things defined about our character. What we're going to do is start giving him expressions and emotions. Thus this character begins to come to life. for this what we are going to do is something very simple, we are going to base ourselves on the emojis of social networks such as those of facebook or those of whatsapp. I'm going to go to whatsapp and I'm going to see what are the emojis that appear. So here I see, for example, that there are some in which a character seems to be dazed or seems to be in love, or seems to be like very happy but with a drop of sweat, f...”
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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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