Fantasy Character Design in Procreate
Color Strategy and Harmony 1
A course by Nicholas Kole (nkole) , Character Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Color Strategy and Harmony 1
Overview
“Not only is color beautiful, but it's also useful! In this lesson, I'll talk about how the various principles of contrast (value, saturation, complementary contrast, and temperature) can be applied to guide the eye through your design. ”
In this video lesson Nicholas Kole (nkole) addresses the topic: Color Strategy and Harmony 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fantasy Character Design in Procreate. Explore the depths of your imagination to develop original character designs using Procreate, from the initial concept to the final artwork.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Color Strategy and Harmony In this lesson, we're taking a look at color through a strategic lens. Before we move forward with the piece, we'll talk a bit about color theory. There are a lot of different opinions and ways of tackling this out there. For me, I drive my color through the lens of meaning and what we talked about in earlier lessons, the hierarchy of meaning. Whatever that hook is, wherever the core part of your design is that you want people to pay attention to and remember, color and various types of contrasts that we'll get into will help to drive people's attention directly...”
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Course summary for: Fantasy Character Design in Procreate
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration
Nicholas Kole (nkole)
A course by Nicholas Kole (nkole)
Nicholas Kole is a character designer and illustrator based in Vancouver, Canada. He developed a passion for creating characters as a child and knew by high school that it was his calling. He went on to complete a degree in illustration before entering the professional sphere, working across film, television, publishing, video games, trading cards, and toys. He loves the freedom and versatility of digital tools and draws all his designs exclusively in Procreate.
Over the course of his career, he has worked on franchises like Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, and collaborated with clients including Disney, Dreamworks, Nintendo, Activision Blizzard, Netflix, Hasbro, Mattel, Warner Bros., and EA Games. He currently holds the role of principal concept artist at Phoenix Labs.
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