Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Initial Ideas - Thumbnails
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Initial Ideas - Thumbnails
Overview
“I will demonstrate an alternative way to start generating ideas: the thumbnail sketch. Not every designer uses silhouettes to begin their process, and you need to try out different ways of working to see what suits you best. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Initial Ideas - Thumbnails, 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
“In this lesson, we're going to start sketching out some thumbnails It's important for you to realize that you don't have to pick silhouettes or thumbnails as your process going forward. Try both out and see which ones fit you the best. I prefer to use thumbnails myself. So let's take a little look. So I'm going to build my characters up from shapes again. There's no real right or wrong way to do this. You can start with the feet. You can start with the face if you want. Although I would encourage you not to start with the face if you can, because it's really, really simple to get bogged dow...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
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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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