Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Initial ideas - Silhouettes
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Initial ideas - Silhouettes
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to start generating your first ideas using silhouette and shape. It is important that your character design can be clearly read from a distance no matter what they are doing, and the best way to do that is to give them a distinct silhouette. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Initial ideas - Silhouettes, 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
“there are lots of different ways that we can generate our first ideas. We can use silhouette, we can use thumbnails, or even scribbles will do. In this lesson, I'm going to begin by using Silhouette. So what I'll do now is I'll run you through how I go about doing my silhouettes and I'll show you the two different ways that you can do them. The thing to remember with silhouettes is that Just rough starting points. Remember what we've talked about before, it's all about shape. And clarity and also remember to get those negative shapes in your silhouette so that they can be easily readable. S...”
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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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