Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Tips on scanning, painting and color palette
A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator
About the video: Tips on scanning, painting and color palette
Overview
“We will see a very simple method to digitize our drawings and give them a professional finish.”
In this video lesson Gastón Caba addresses the topic: Tips on scanning, painting and color palette, 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 I am going to show you. As I move from the sketch to a more finished image. To begin work I will scan my drawing. I always leave a drawing on an A3 sheet. To be able to have a very good quality image. I make the drawing using only black ink. And that allows me to separate the line from the bottom. And have more control when it comes to painting. That's why when scanning. I'm going to use black and white mode. Let's adjust the resolution to 600 dpi. That will give us a very high quality image. We're going to rotate an image. And well, this is an ideal moment. To repair the ima...”
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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
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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.
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