Character Design for Concept Art

Overview

“The first thing before we start to draw will be to look for the references that will guide us in the first sketches. This exercise is very important because this way we will be clear from the beginning what we need and it will save us a lot of time later, since we will not have to constantly look for references, we will just draw.”

In this video lesson J.Alexander Guillen addresses the topic: Character creation and reference search, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Design for Concept Art. Learn to create your own protagonists with no limit but your own imagination.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Music] Good, this lesson what is is character creation and search of references, what we are going to do basically is to find all the references that we are going to be of utility for the design of the character. As you will see there are many and we are going to try to capture them all on a sheet with comments on each of the points. This part I've done previously so we do not waste a lot of time on it, so you'll see that you can spend between 10-15 minutes an hour or even two hours in this whole search and it's a very important search because what he's going to do is streamline whole fina...”

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Course summary for: Character Design for Concept Art

• Level: Intermediate
• 98% positive reviews (289)
• 5643 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 3m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Concept Art, Digital Illustration, Game Design, Traditional illustration, Video Games