Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
Final Color and Clean-up Work
A course by Florian Satzinger , Character Designer
Joined November 2021
Joined November 2021
About the video: Final Color and Clean-up Work
Overview
“Let's work on the finishing bits of the artwork. You will see how I clean up the lighting and shading and add some highlights here and there. ”
In this video lesson Florian Satzinger addresses the topic: Final Color and Clean-up Work, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities. Explore anatomy, perspective, volume, light, and shadow to bring human-like animal characters to life on the page.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Final Color and Clean-up Work This lesson will be about final colors and finishing the whole piece. Let's do it. What I'll do now is hide the rough lines. Let me check over here... the grid, so the characters are standing on pure white ground. What I'll now add is some sketchy lines to the drawing... to make this a bit more lively. For this, I use a brush with 71% Opacity, black, and... work on here on this layer. No, that's too thick. There's something I always like to do, and that's to put some extras to the drawing. I enjoy those rough-shaped lines. That helps the drawing in a way that...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Florian Satzinger
A course by Florian Satzinger
Florian Satzinger is an Austria-based character designer and visual development artist. Inspired by the classic, hand-drawn Disney films of his childhood, he went on to study fine arts and animation before launching his freelance career. After building a portfolio of advertising projects, he ventured into the animation industry, creating poster and cover art for Looney Tunes Magazine. Impressed by his illustrations, the Vice President of Walt Disney International contacted him and invited him to join the development team.
During his time at Warner Bros. and Disney, Florian collaborated on some of the most iconic cartoon characters in history, including Donald and Daisy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Sylvester. He has also worked for businesses like The Zanuck Company, ReelFX, Space Age Films, Psyop, Ravensburger North America, Facebook, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Red Bull, and Snapchat. In addition to the art he’s created for the animation and comic-book industry, he illustrates satirical cartoon caricatures that are regularly displayed in galleries like the Caricature Museum in Krems, Austria.
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