Specialization in Fictional Character Design and Illustration

Overview

“In this lesson let’s talk about something called flatting. We’ll start to choose our local colors and I’ll explain what those are as well as our decisions for our color choices.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Flatting Our Character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Fictional Character Design and Illustration. Master the art of memorable fictional character illustration, developing dynamic, expressive characters with unique personalities.

Partial transcription of the video

“So in this lesson, we're going to talk a little bit about something called flatting. and that's where we choose our local colors. And I'll explain a little bit more about that as we dive in. We're gonna talk about the importance of how we choose those colors and why we do that. And let's go ahead and get started. By the end of this phase, this is what your image should look like. you should have solid fields of color separating each element. And again, no shading or anything. They're just solid fills. each element will be kind of separated that way. Depending on how you want to paint things...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Fictional Character Design and Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 185 students
• 6 units
• 83 lessons (16h 30m)
• 25 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Procreate

• Areas

  Character Design, Color Theory, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration