Methodology and Conceptualisation for Designing Characters
Base templates
A course by Jordi Ros , Designer and Artist
About the video: Base templates
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to make, choose or create the ideal template for your work. It is a basic document that will reinforce good communication with creative directors, art directors, producers, etc. I will also give you the necessary concepts and guides so that you can make your own templates or use one of the ones I will provide in additional resources. ”
In this video lesson Jordi Ros addresses the topic: Base templates, which is part of the Domestika online course: Methodology and Conceptualisation for Designing Characters. Research, illustrate, and present your character ideas like a professional.
Partial transcription of the video
“The base templates When we have our moodboard, We will proceed to work on the basic templates of the character. These templates will be a very useful tool because they will allow us very quickly and very effectively start designing our characters while doing small variations on those characters, in this case it would be, in a professional process, receive feedback from the art director or the creative director and you start graphically about the drawing, start introducing these small modifications, so that we will save a lot of time, we won't have to draw practically anything from scratch a...”
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Course summary for: Methodology and Conceptualisation for Designing Characters
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Category
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Software
Procreate -
Areas
Character Design, Traditional illustration

Jordi Ros
A course by Jordi Ros
Jordi Ros is an illustrator, designer, and artist. He was born in Mexico and is based in Barcelona. For the last six years, he has been dedicated exclusively to commercial illustration, including projects for clients such as Vice UK, Universal, Virgil Atlantic, adidas, and Sony Music, among others. In addition, he works independently as a concept developer for art toy and collector brands.
Jordi's work is characterized by the fusion of traditional drawing elements, manga, and sport. His goal is to reflect the day-by-day evolution of the current generation in his portraits. Despite his western origins, the Japanese influence is very evident in his work.
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