Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Learning to See 1
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Learning to See 1
Overview
“Now you will learn about the key principles of character design. By thinking about these foundational elements and their emotional effects on the viewer while you draw, you can utilise them to create interesting design choices for your characters. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Learning to See 1, 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
“Learning to See In this lesson, we'll learn about the elements of design. These are the fundamentals that we must learn to move forward with our designs. We'll take a look at shape, silhouette, line of action, proportion... Really integral things like these will help our designs stand out. Firstly, let's take a look at shape, which is really important in designing. It's a good idea to build our characters from simple shapes, like the circle, the square, and the triangle. They shape the basis of the bodies, heads, and limbs of our characters, as well as their costumes. Using them will help u...”
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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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