Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Adding Colour
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Adding Colour
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll show you how I colour my character designs using the file structure I showed you before. I always use this approach, whether it be for clients or my own personal work. It’s really important to be able to change your colours easily and quickly so that you can save yourself time and avoid having to repaint things. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Adding Colour, 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
“Adding Colour In this lesson, we'll start colouring our line art work layer. First, I'll block the basic colour layer. On that, I'll add clipping masks for every element of my design. Let's get started. I've imported my final line art work layer into Procreate at the same file size, so it's 300 DPI at A4. I prefer using Procreate to colour my work because it feels natural to me. I also like using the Apple Pencil. If you don't have Procreate, don't worry, you can still follow along with this. You can use Photoshop or Clip Studio or any other layered digital program that you have. I'll follo...”
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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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