Character Design for Concept Art
Giving color to the sketches II
A course by J.Alexander Guillen , Concept Artist, Illustrator, and Sketcher
Joined June 2017
About the video: Giving color to the sketches II
Overview
“Second part of the lesson.”
In this video lesson J.Alexander Guillen addresses the topic: Giving color to the sketches II, 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
“Now that we've arrived at this stage. let's bring out the reference folder I previously showed you. I'll place it here for visibility. Excellent. What we're about to examine is the character. We'll begin with one. elaborating on it further. We'll modify certain aspects and incorporate new elements to enhance it. For instance. the cape. the type of cape. maybe a style like this would be better. As for the hat. we'll use something more like what we had in EBIUS. For now. let's change that. In terms of the body. you can observe that it remains consistent with the references. This includes the ...”
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Course summary for: Character Design for Concept Art
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Concept Art, Digital Illustration, Game Design, Traditional illustration, Video Games

J.Alexander Guillen
A course by J.Alexander Guillen
Digital and concept artist J. Alexander Guillen works in the film and video game industry designing a whole host of characters and their backdrops. He has been collaborating with companies such as Filmax Animation, Epic Games, Grin, Post23, Digital Domain, and Ubisoft for over a decade and his work has appeared in books and magazines including 2DArtMagazine, Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting, Concept Magazine, and The Art of Alexander.
His work consists of distilling the ideas of creative directors, producers, and his own dreams and nightmares into images.
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