Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Colour Me Happy 2
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Colour Me Happy 2
Overview
“I will show you how I set up my files whilst colouring a character in a way that gives me the most flexibility to change my colours at any point. This is an important tip to learn for the times when you will be working for a client! Let’s dive in. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Colour Me Happy 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
“Whenever I color my work, I like to keep things simple, but still really flexible to allow for any changes that I might get from a client. So I'm going to show you how I structure my files for coloring, but first I want to talk about the two things I always use to help me color. which are clipping masks and transparency locks. Let's take a look at these in turn, starting with clipping masks. So the word masking, means hiding parts of a layer. and a clipping mask lets us use the content of one layer to mask or hide the layers above it. It's the content of the bottom layer, which is also call...”
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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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