Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Taking Things Up a Notch
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Taking Things Up a Notch
Overview
“My favourite step! In this lesson, you will see how I add excitement, detail and texture to my design by dialling up the colours in different ways and adding abstract elements. It’s still a fine balancing act, so make sure you don't go too crazy! Here we go! ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Taking Things Up a Notch, 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'll show you how I really push my design to the next level by colouring the line artwork. I'll also add some fun textures and other extra bits on top to make it really sing. So let's go. First of all, I'm going to get rid of this black outline because it's a little bit too dull and oppressive. So, What I'm going to do is I'm going to duplicate my line artwork layer. by swiping left with the Apple Pencil and then just clicking duplicate. You can see that immediately it thickens the line artwork up if I toggle it on and off. It's a little bit too thick. I have it at 100% So I...”
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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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