Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Head Sketches 1
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Head Sketches 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will sketch out some alternative head and face designs.”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Head Sketches 1, 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, I'm going to try out some alternative heads for my character. I'm not really happy with the way he's looking at the moment, and I'm going to try out some different noses, some different heads, some different expressions to see if I can find a better fit for his personality. I've created a new Photoshop document for my alternate heads. And as you can see here, i've got my. original design on the left-hand side here. that we've been working on. And then what I've done is I've duplicated it across the page like this. I've put each one in a separate group. in the top right hand ...”
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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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