Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Bringing It All Together 1
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Bringing It All Together 1
Overview
“After working through the process of generating silhouettes and thumbnail sketches you will refine your drawing and experiment with a variety of face designs.”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Bringing It All Together 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
“It's almost time to colour our character. But first of all, we have to clean him up. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how I do that. And I think it's important to maintain what I call the soul of the drawing when you're doing this. And the way that I do it is I leave a lot of my sketch there intact. Let me show you how I do it. I've created a new document and here on the left-hand side, I've placed our original design. And if I activate this layer group here, you can see this is currently where the design is at. I've amended quite a few things. So let's go through it now quickly. I've ...”
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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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