Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
My Influences
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: My Influences
Overview
“Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I was influenced by a lot of animation, movies, music, video games, and even the culture itself at the time. I’ve carried these things with me all of my life and they always seem to find their way into my work. Naturally, my main influences are other artists and designers. In this lesson, I will share some of my favourites with you, explain the impact they have had on me, and tell you what I love about their work. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: My Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style. Learn how to play with the proportions, shapes, and expressions of your protagonists using professional stylistic techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'm going to speak to you about my artistic influences. Quentin Blake was my first exposure to character design, I suppose, when I was younger. He was the perfect illustrator to draw Roald Dahl's amazing stories. And these are two of my favourite books from when I was growing up. These are my... original copies so they're really special to me. And Quentin Blake's got this incredible economy of line, his characters have so much emotion to them. And I think his pen and ink style of drawing really lends itself to their personalities. I think line quality is something to always ...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Dan Kelby
A course by Dan Kelby
Dan Kelby is a freelance character designer from England who specializes in designing for the animation industry. He grew up in a creative family, inspired by cartoons and movies from the 80s and 90s, and eventually went on to study animation at Norwich University of Arts. After graduating, he worked as a graphic designer for a number of years before rediscovering his love of drawing and becoming a full-time freelance character designer in 2016.
Since then, Dan has worked for clients including Netflix, Disney Television Animation, and Cartoon Network. He also teaches classes part-time at his former university to help others improve their drawing.
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