Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Finalising the Design
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Finalising the Design
Overview
“Now that your design is complete it is time to release it to the world! In this lesson, I will show you how to tweak and unify your colours, add your signature, and sharpen everything up. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Finalising the Design, 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'm going to show you my process of finalizing the design. Back in Photoshop, We're going to use adjustment layers to tweak the colors. We're going to balance things up a bit. I'll show you how to sharpen the image and the signature, and then we'll all be done. So let's go. I've exported my Procreate file out of the program back into Photoshop as a PSD, so now I can work on it back on my desktop. And this is just the final stage where I'm going to tweak some of the colors and maybe go back into it right now and just do some final cleanups. So to do that, I'll create a new la...”
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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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