Character Design for Concept Art

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you how to give a few touches of color to 3 chosen characters, those three that I consider better. The basic idea is to give them a more volumetric finish, without going into detail. A few touches of color will give a more beautiful visualization and we can highlight with color those points that we consider of interest. In my drawings what I have highlighted has been the mechanical arms, giving them greater importance than the silhouette itself.”

In this video lesson J.Alexander Guillen addresses the topic: Giving color to the sketches I, 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 ♪ Alright, In this lesson giving color to a sketch what we're going to do is pick up a few, the ones we like the most, or consider more important and we will give them some color. Simply the color is to help the client to see a little clearer what would be the color palette that will have the character itself. It is not very important at this time but it helps a little more so that the client sees it much better. So let's go to it. Well, we'll start with a collection of characters that had made. We have here on the screen. Let's take several, let's say three, to clean them a bit for...”

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Course summary for: Character Design for Concept Art

• Level: Intermediate
• 98% positive reviews (289)
• 5644 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