Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
How to Study A Style
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: How to Study A Style
Overview
“I’ve spoken a lot about style in this course, but how do we study it? In this lesson I will show you how by looking at style guides, tracing, and doing master copies. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: How to Study A Style, 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 video, I'm going to show you how to study a style. Looking at another artist's work and the way that they solve drawing problems is really, really important in your development. There are quite a few different ways we can do this from studying a style guide to drawing over another artist's work, or even doing a master study. Let's take a look at some of these in Photoshop. I found this style guide for Adventure Time on the internet just by Googling Adventure Time Style Guide. And by looking at these, we can learn the rules behind the show's look, And we can take some of those rules ...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
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Category
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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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