Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Exaggerating Life 3
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Exaggerating Life 3
Overview
“I will demonstrate how to analyse photographs of animals, and then caricature them by using all of the Elements of Design to come up with a fun character design. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Exaggerating Life 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
“So when we're drawing animals, it's the same kind of principle. We'll find the shapes first, and then we'll kind of exaggerate those to come up with new designs. I find that when I'm looking at animals especially, it helps to get different angles of the animal. In this case, we can see from the giraffe we've got a side view We've got a kind of front three quarter view here. And then. Another sort of Front three quarters, a bit more exaggerated, and then we've got a front view. It just helps to give us... A bit more of a dimensional impression of our subject. You could even get back if you w...”
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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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