Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
Exploratory Sketches 2
A course by Sam Nassour , Art Director and Visual Development Artist
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Exploratory Sketches 2
Overview
“In this second part of the lesson, I will continue to draw sketches, trying to capture the unique features of the real animal. Remember that you may want to exaggerate some of them to make your character more appealing.”
In this video lesson Sam Nassour addresses the topic: Exploratory Sketches 2, 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 Let's do one more character sketch. Looking at the references again. Let's see if we can find something we like, that we didn't use before. This one is cool because it has this detail under the mouth. This big kind of chin part here and we can use something like this in the next one. Let's start with the head, really loose again. Maybe some eyes here. And he has this big triangle again. but this one maybe we can separate into a couple more chunks to keep things more different. This part here under the mouth is what I'm interested in this design We haven't done this befo...”
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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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