Vector Character Design for Beginners
About the Character: The Skeleton
A course by Martin Laksman , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: About the Character: The Skeleton
Overview
“Once sketched, the next step you should do is start giving it a more finished shape. In this lesson, I will show you how to do this. ”
In this video lesson Martin Laksman addresses the topic: About the Character: The Skeleton, 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
“About the character: the skeleton To work on the sketches created in the previous lesson, we will play with geometry as a first step to give the final shape to the character. What we will do now is concentrate in this sketch to continue illustrating. Normally if this sketch were on paper and pencil, we would now be scanning it and taking a photo of it to be able to put it inside the computer and so later to be able to redraw it. We already have all of that here, since our sketch is digital. What we will do now is have a copy on the side for reference. And in our sketch we will go to Transpa...”
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Course summary for: Vector Character Design for Beginners
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
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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