Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality

Design and illustrate expressive characters using poses, gestures, and color palettes to tell stories

• Introduction
• What’s the Main Idea Behind the Pose?
• Conceptual Sketches
• Finalizing Your Character Drawing
• Final project

With digital painting tools, you have the power to bring to life fictional characters with their very own stories to tell. Concept artist and character designer Joel Santana specializes in creating expressive characters and art that communicates powerful messages. He has worked for clients like Disney and had his work published by MTVNews.com and Huffington Post UK.

In this course, Joel gives you the tools you need to create dynamic characters of your own. Learn to give your story a charismatic protagonist filled with texture, light, and color.

This is Joel’s second course with Domestika. In this first, Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light, he shares his expertise in using color and light to design unique characters with Adobe Photoshop.

• About Me
• Influences
• Line of Action: Briefing
• Inspiration and Reference Images
• Character Shapes and Construction
• Narrative Sketches
• Weight and Balance
• Exaggerating Facial Expressions
• Sketching the Character
• Polishing the Character
• Color Pass
• Face Expressions
• Other Poses
• Creative Advice
• Digital Character Design: Draw Protagonists with Personality