Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Head Sketches 2
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Head Sketches 2
Overview
“I will continue experimenting with different features and hairstyles in order to find the best “look” for my character. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Head Sketches 2, 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
“Okay, so that's all of our head options done. Now let's zoom in and take a little look at them and compare them to the first one and see which ones we like and which ones we want to discard. I'm going to... make a new layer called notes. We can keep everything on there. Some of these decisions I'll make will be purely emotional. I think you can tell. When you look at things, think they work or not straight away, regardless of whether they work from a design sort of point of view. So let's just go through those quickly. I don't think this guy really works. I like his nose. I like that break ...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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