Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Exaggerating Life 2
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Exaggerating Life 2
Overview
“During this lesson, I will show you how I create a character from reality, and demonstrate how I like to alter my reference photo and combine different references to form a new character. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Exaggerating Life 2, 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
“Remember also, you can change the reference, a bit like when you do gesture drawing, you don't have to copy it exactly, especially if we're doing things like this, which is basically to get ideas for characters. It's not to copy this guy. and then present him as our character. It's to sort of practice drawing people mainly. And then, you'll find that quickly you'll build up a sort of visual library. of your own to draw on. And also sometimes it's fun to do things like, you know, put glasses on people. even if they haven't. Got them in the photo. And give a character a whole different vibe s...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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