Character Design: Develop Your Own Style

Learn how to play with the proportions, shapes, and expressions of your protagonists using professional stylistic techniques

• Introduction
• Character Design
• Doing Some Groundwork
• Creating Your Character
• Completing Your Character
• Onwards and Upwards
• Final project

Through character design, you can visually translate the emotions, sensations, and personalities of your favorite protagonists. Designer Dan Kelby creates colorful characters for animation, illustration, comics, and games and has worked with clients including Disney Television Animation and Netflix.

In this course, Dan shares his expertise to help you bring your own characters to life. Learn the principles of character design and, more importantly, when to break them. Are you ready to draw outside the box and break the rules with style?

• About Me
• My Influences
• Character Design: A Matter of Style 1
• Character Design: A Matter of Style 2
• Learning to See 1
• Learning to See 2
• Learning to See 3
• Exaggerating Life 1
• Exaggerating Life 2
• Exaggerating Life 3
• Exaggerating Life 4
• Exaggerating Life 5
• Push it Until it Breaks! 1
• Push it Until it Breaks! 2
• Colour Me Happy 1
• Colour Me Happy 2
• Writing Yourself a Brief
• Research and Creating a Mood Board
• Initial ideas - Silhouettes
• Initial Ideas - Thumbnails
• Draw-Overs and Refining the Idea
• Head Sketches 1
• Head Sketches 2
• Bringing It All Together 1
• Bringing It All Together 2
• Adding Colour
• Taking Things Up a Notch
• Finalising the Design
• How to Study A Style
• Being Your Authentic Self
• Portfolio Tips and How to Get Into Animation
• Character Development