Creative Character Design for Products

Develop a cohesive set of characters to apply to any kind of object using Adobe Illustrator

• Introduction
• Looking at and Understanding Character Design
• Making Our Ideas Come to Life
• Prepping for Production
• Final project

London-based illustrator and character designer Rob Flowers channels his love of unusual toys, vintage action figures, and psychedelic colors into award-winning illustrations. Are you ready to embark on a colorful character design adventure where there is never a dull pixel or drop of ink?

In this course, work with Rob to develop a set of character designs that communicate ideas and emotions to be used on products ranging from stickers to t-shirts to prints.

• Introduction
• Influences
• What Will We Do on this Course?
• Principles of Character Design
• Let’s Keep It Brief and Identifying Theme
• Researching Themes
• Colour Considerations
• Sketching Ideas 1
• Sketching Ideas 2
• First Round Developments
• Turning Digital 1
• Turning Digital 2
• Final Tweaks
• Prep for Tee
• Prep for Messaging
• Repeated Pattern for Fabric
• Creative Character Design for Products