Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Bringing It All Together 2
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Bringing It All Together 2
Overview
“Now that you have tried exploring different things, it’s now time to bring everything together ready for the colouring stage. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Bringing It All Together 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
“I'm going to move to the cleanup stage now. And the way that I clean things up is that I try and keep as much of my sketch in as possible. I think some other artists out there might take this as the first step and then knock the layer down in opacity. add another layer of the top and then literally reline everything over the top, like go over the lines, but do a sort of clean version of this. And that's completely fine. I've got nothing against people that do that. And I've done that before. But the thing that I found over the years, and certainly in recent months, is that my work retains a...”
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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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