Design & Illustration of Dynamic Characters
How to Expand Your Character and Work a Series
A course by Andrés Moncayo , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: How to Expand Your Character and Work a Series
Overview
“In this lesson you will see the importance of expanding the world or the concept beyond the character when sharing it on social networks. ”
In this video lesson Andrés Moncayo addresses the topic: How to Expand Your Character and Work a Series, 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 teach you how to show the story and the world of our character. And I'll show you some ideas of how to make a series, that is, an idea or concept that goes through several illustrations. The first point I want to talk about is fan art versus original art. Thinking purely about social networks, fan art can have much more impact than original art. And this is because people already have a fondness for a character they already know. and this feeling can carry over into the art that we make. And also people are more likely to share a character they already know than a char...”
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Course summary for: Design & Illustration of Dynamic Characters
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Category
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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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