Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Exaggerating Life 4
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Exaggerating Life 4
Overview
“Look how I simultaneously push proportion, pose, facial expression, hairstyles and fashion to finish with a stylised version of my reference. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Exaggerating Life 4, 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
“When I'm doing full-bodied people I use the same rules as I've just been showing you, I'll draw the figure based on shape and proportion that I can see when I'm looking at the reference image. I'm not going to draw over these, but you'll be able to see What I'm doing is I describe it. Okay, let's use that as our first one. So I'm going to double click on here and just type one, hit enter. And then. I'm going to make a duplicate of it, remember? We drag it down to the plus sign. I'm going to hide that original. double click where it says one copy and then just Press 2 on the keyboard, hit en...”
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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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