Vector Character Design for Beginners
How to Create Your Character: From the Idea to the Workspace
A course by Martin Laksman , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: How to Create Your Character: From the Idea to the Workspace
Overview
“If you have already defined your character and you know what characteristics it will have, you are set to start sketching digitally. Don't worry, here I will show you how to do this process. ”
In this video lesson Martin Laksman addresses the topic: How to Create Your Character: From the Idea to the Workspace, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vector Character Design for Beginners. Learn how to get the most out of Adobe Illustrator and create fantastic characters from geometric shapes.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to create your character: from idea to workspace Since we know what we want to draw, we will get to work on the sketch. Picking up where we left off in the previous lesson, already with all the references we are looking for both how is the character and some references of where we want to go with that character in terms of style, there are several and then we will narrow them down or we will define them as we work. The first thing we will do now is work on the sketch. One is used to working a sketch and that the sketch is a piece of paper or a pencil. And that we have in mind as a sketc...”
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Course summary for: Vector Character Design for Beginners
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Adobe Illustrator -
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Character Design, Drawing, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration
Martin Laksman
A course by Martin Laksman
Martin Laksman is an Argentinian illustrator with a degree in graphic design from the Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning Department of the University of Buenos Aires where he’s been teaching Editorial Illustration as an adjunct professor in the Roldán department for the past ten years. He is currently the co-director of his own professional illustration training program and the art director for the Club Atlético Independiente where he creates graphic content for the marketing department.
He also works as a freelance illustrator for different national and international graphic media outlets. His work includes character creation, sports and editorial illustrations, and icons that balance simplicity with communicative power. Throughout his career, he has worked with clients like Disney, Coca-Cola, Cartoon Network, Under Armour, Bundesliga, Gatorade, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, NaranjaX, etc.
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