Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
Starting With Flat Colors
A course by Sam Nassour , Art Director and Visual Development Artist
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Starting With Flat Colors
Overview
“In this lesson we will explore color in our character and add a little bit of texture based on the references.”
In this video lesson Sam Nassour addresses the topic: Starting With Flat Colors, 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
“In this lesson, we will be adding flat colors and some simple textures to our character. based on the preference images that we collected before. So let's do that. Let's start our coloring process now. In the flat colors. I brought back the reference board again. just to keep us inspired and using the colors that this animal has. And maybe we can push and pull and exaggerate in some areas. but this is a great starting point. I'm using this refined sketch. I actually like the feel when we keep the initial rough sketch underneath. So I'm going to merge these two layers. And now we have one sk...”
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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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