Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Push it Until it Breaks! 2
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Push it Until it Breaks! 2
Overview
“It’s important to be open to the notion of “happy accidents” as you design and to never settle on your first idea, so let’s see what we end up with! ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Push it Until it Breaks! 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
“Okay, so we can see how I just pushed the face again there. I mean, it's changed quite a bit, actually. And that's just from taking simple decisions like reshaping that nose and turning it into more of a kind of dagger shape. Remember when we looked at those early Jafar designs? He had this brilliant kind of like hook nose that's sort of like a straight end. curve and then some more straights like these. So that's the kind of thing that I've done on here. I've moved the bun again just to balance out and I push the ear down slightly. down here. changed the shape of the mouth. I wanted to pus...”
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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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