Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Draw-Overs and Refining the Idea
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Draw-Overs and Refining the Idea
Overview
“During this lesson, you will choose your favourite ideas and push them a little more by drawing over them. You will also use some of Photoshop’s other tools to help make more changes. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Draw-Overs and Refining the Idea, 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 refine our idea by choosing our best silhouettes and our best thumbnails. We're going to do a little lineup. We're going to draw over some of them, push them about a bit in Photoshop, and come up with a better design. I've made a new Photoshop document for this stage, and in that document I've got my silhouettes and my thumbnails in separate groups here, you can see in the top right hand corner. And that just makes it easy for me to see them all in one place. and to pick between them. The designs I'm going to take forward to the next stage. And I think it's im...”
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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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