Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
Exploratory Sketches 1
A course by Sam Nassour , Art Director and Visual Development Artist
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Exploratory Sketches 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will start working on a rough sketch of our character using our reference images.”
In this video lesson Sam Nassour addresses the topic: Exploratory Sketches 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature. Learn how to design an animal-based character full of emotion and personality in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Exploratory Sketches In this lesson, we'll start sketching rough ideas for the character based on the images we collected. For me, it's the most fun part of the process because you get to come up with interesting ideas, without spending too much time on each one. Later, we'll pick the best one and we'll take it from there. So, let's get right to it. Let's begin by doing some exploratory sketches. We have the reference window on the side, with the web browser. You can put it on a second monitor, but for me this is good. I look at the references while I work, so Photoshop window is on this si...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Sam Nassour
A course by Sam Nassour
Sam Nassour is an art director and visual development artist in the animation and video game industry. Although Sam enjoyed drawing since a young child, he decided to study architecture at university, which paved new creative paths in the fields of design language and 3D space creation. Later on, he decided to pursue his real passion: creating visual characters and stories in the animation and entertainment industry.
He finds his inspiration in nature and the animal kingdom, which can always be found in his designs; whether it be through shapes, colors, or designs. Sam has worked with several major animation studios around the world, including Netflix Animation and Dreamworks TV. He is currently working on a new game project with Rovio.
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