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Creative Character Design for Products

Offered By: Domestika

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Design & Creativity Courses Drawing Courses Adobe Illustrator Courses Product Design Courses Sketching Courses Color Theory Courses Character Design Courses Digital Illustration Courses

Course Description

Overview

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.


Syllabus

  • 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

Taught by

Rob Flowers

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