Character Design and Illustration: The Summoner
Last updated: Jan 2018
Character Design and Illustration: The Summoner. Join me as I walk you through my method of character design and illustration using Adobe Illustrator. I spent over 10 years developing the style of illustration using the most robust vector software on the market. You will learn exactly how I approach my character design and illustration as if you're over my shoulder watching me in a real-life studio setting. My approach to character design is very modular, and allows for many different types of genres and design types. So whatever, kind of project you're working on this demo will get you on the right track.
The techniques I'm using in this video series can be carried over into many other painting and drawing applications. The methods I'm using are partial to Adobe Illustrator. This video will focus primarily on how to digital paint in the broadest sense so we can apply the knowledge to any other process as we see fit.
Digital painting and cell shading in Adobe Illustrator allows you to adapt your character designs for many uses and sizes. Since vectors are scalable and do not pixelate when resized.
- How to digital ink in Adobe Illustrator
- How to paint vector textures
- How to Cel-Shade in Adobe Illustrator
- how to get started inking in Adobe Illustrator
- how to color flats in Adobe Illustrator
- dynamic lighting techniques
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Course content
- Introduction (1 lecture • 1min)
- Welcome (01:13)
- Inking and Brush Development 101 (5 lectures • 33min)
- Introduction (01:26)
- Brush Basics (07:48)
- Inking with Blind Brushes (08:02)
- The First is Last Method (10:31)
- Basic Sketching (05:13)
- Inking the Character Design (4 lectures • 15min)
- Line Art Direction (03:24)
- Gesture Development (03:28)
- The First is Last Method (01:06)
- Advanced Line Art (07:27)
- Creating the Secondary Character Design (3 lectures • 17min)
- Developing the Secondary Characters (06:38)
- Adding Details to the Line Art (04:49)
- Secondary Character Details (05:28)
- Rendering the Illustration (8 lectures • 3hr 56min)
- Filling in the Colors (01:37)
- Cel-shading Development (02:32)
- Refining the Hair (02:04)
- Shadow Development (04:24)
- Shadows within Detail (13:38)
- Shading the Secondary Characters (07:02)
- Background Design and Idealization (02:00)
- Follow Along Demo (03:22:29)
- Adobe Illustrator CS6 or higher
- Students who wish to learn Character Design and Illustration in Adobe
- Anyone who wants to learn how to develop character design in Adobe Illustrator
- Anyone who wishes to learn advanced brush techniques
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