Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Learning to See 3
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Learning to See 3
Overview
“In this lesson, I will finish covering some of the basics aspects like shape, silhouette (clarity and negative space), proportion, gesture, line of action, straights and curves. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Learning to See 3, 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 You can think of line of action as an invisible force running through the body that makes the character's pose easier for us to read. It's the force that's aligned with the spine and can exist as a gentle sweeping line all the way to a more extreme curve. If we look at these examples here, we imagine this force running through the body. For example, we got this nice sweeping C curve here. It's really tight in the one here. This one could be a C curve like that, or it could be something a bit more refined like that. I find that the line of action sometimes can be subjective. ...”
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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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