Concept Art: Character Design & Worldbuilding

Overview

“With the framework of the world in hand, it's time to find your character’s place in it. Prince, pauper, wizard, villain, or vanquishing hero, you must understand what made your character.”

In this video lesson Even Amundsen addresses the topic: Defining the Character and the Context, which is part of the Domestika online course: Concept Art: Character Design & Worldbuilding. Explore color, texture, lighting, and layers to create memorable protagonists that tell a story with every detail.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Defining the Character and the Context We've understood a bit more about worlds, settings, and how all this stuff works together. Now, we'll throw a character into this mix and see how those things work together. A large part of this is where does your character fit into this whole rigmarole. Are they a prince, a pauper, a knight, or a wizard, what have you? This is important because of that early archetype thing we talked about, but it also has its own set of rules within rules within rules. We'll go large to small even in this relative term. The largest element to talk about here is fac...”

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Course summary for: Concept Art: Character Design & Worldbuilding

• Level: Beginner
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• 26519 students
• 4 units
• 19 lessons (3h 46m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Character Design, Concept Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration