Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Writing Yourself a Brief
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Writing Yourself a Brief
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to brainstorm a brief for a character based on your own personal interests, and give you some questions to ask that character so that you can establish a backstory for them. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Writing Yourself a Brief, 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
“Writing Yourself a Brief In this lesson, you'll learn to write a character's brief. We'll brainstorm a few things, write a spider diagram. By the end, we'll have a clearer idea of what our character's going to be. To create new characters, I brainstorm them visually using a spider diagram. If you're unaware of a spider diagram, there's one on the screen right now. Basically, it comprises of this main subject in the middle. That would be our idea. Then, we have all these branches coming off the side. We have a subtopic connected to the idea and we get other little ideas which lead back to th...”
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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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