Design & Illustration of Dynamic Characters
Color Theory
A course by Andrés Moncayo , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Color Theory
Overview
“To get started, I'll talk about some basics about color, what it means, and how you can apply it to your character.”
In this video lesson Andrés Moncayo addresses the topic: Color Theory, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design & Illustration of Dynamic Characters. Design characters full of movement and color from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson I will show you a little bit about color theory. and how to apply it to our character. The first thing I want to show you is the color hierarchy. Here we can see three famous people. The important thing here is that we see how the proportion of color of each of these characters is used. In this graph we can see how black is more predominant in Robin, the orange in Goku and the red and the pink in the super powerful girl. The important thing is that we use few colors. Here we can see how they use 5 or 6 colors maximum for their character. This is a suitable number of colors fo...”
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Course summary for: Design & Illustration of Dynamic Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Andrés Moncayo
A course by Andrés Moncayo
Andrés Moncayo was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. He worked for several years in advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett and McCann Erickson and has been an illustrator and art director for his entire career. He has won several national and international advertising and illustration awards. Currently, he works as an Art Director and illustrator in New York.
He has developed a style of blocks and straight lines combined with a colored pencil texture that has evolved over the years. Specializing in character design, his illustrations focus on pop culture and subjects he enjoys such as video games, comics, and anime.
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