Vector Character Design for Beginners
The Environment of the Characters
A course by Martin Laksman , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: The Environment of the Characters
Overview
“Finally, I will show you how to create an environment for your characters, a place where they can live together and show a little more of them. ”
In this video lesson Martin Laksman addresses the topic: The Environment of the Characters, 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
“The environment of the characters And finally we will see where our characters live. We will work with the environment. We will see what a background that accompanies these characters is like. For that we will create a new "layer". We will lock these first two and we will work a little on the "layer" below. An environment can be several things. In this case, given the characters we have we will work on a background that looks something like a forest, we will work on the trees, a background and give it depth and we will try to customize it a little to be the forest of these characters, so, f...”
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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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