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In this lecture we're gonna be talking about contrast in how to treat it and your character designs.
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Now contrast is really important and I know that we'll just kind of been talking along and doing a lot
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of drawing for the past few lectures but just bear with me because this stuff is really important.
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These are concepts that I want you to start thinking about and looking for in real life.
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Looking for it in other people's character designs that you like and these are just concepts that are
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just going to be so important to character design.
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I can't stress it enough.
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So really push through these next few lectures and learn as much as you can and take notes taking notes
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is a really good way to remember things.
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All right so contrast contrast is just basically when you have two things that are next to each other
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that are opposite.
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So for example black and white or complementary colors such as orange and purple or it could be texture
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so let's talk about these.
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So the first one we're gonna look at is texture so we can have contrast in our texture.
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And anytime we create contrast in our images it can create more of an appealing look to your character
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design.
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So what kind of contrasting textures can we create.
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Well let's say for example we have something that's glossy like this will contrasting with that would
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be something that's Matte.
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And if you have those two things right next to each other so a glossy surface next or matte surface
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that's going to create contrast and it's going to look a little bit nicer than if you just had everything
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looking glossy in your character design or whatever it is that you're drawing.
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Another example would be for texture would be skin.
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So rough skin such as an elephant's skin or human skin which is a little bit smoother and softer.
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These are contrasting rough and smooth.
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So you should be getting the idea that contrast isn't just in things like value so black and white can
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be in things like texture.
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It can also be in things like values like we talked about so right here we have character from a Pixar
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movie and she has dark hair so we don't have any color in this.
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We just have her dark valued hair and then her skin tone is a little bit lighter.
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Her eyes are a lot lighter than her skin tone.
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And then when we get down here her dress is a little bit darker than her skin tone.
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But especially when we get down here into these pants or whatever these are called they're a lot darker.
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So it's creating that contrast.
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It just makes it look a little bit nicer and your character designs when every other thing is contrasting.
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So the hair contrast with the skin skin contrasts with their clothes and their clothes contrast with
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other parts of their clothes and then those clothes also can contrast with their skin down on their
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legs or wherever.
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So you should be getting the idea that basically you want to be putting contrasting things next to each
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other.
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That's going to create the most dynamic and appealing look for your character designs.
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All right.
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Another thing we can do is we can use contrasting colors.
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So right here you can see that I have orange and I have a blue and they're right next to each other
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her skin tone is even a little bit orange as well and it's creating that nice contrast because Orange
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and Blue are complementary colors.
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Now we'll talk more about complementary colors later in the course and we'll actually cover a lot more
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about contrast.
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But for now I just want you to start to get the idea of what contrasting elements are.
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All right next.
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Let's go ahead and let's talk about contrasting shapes so looking again at this character I went ahead
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and I took her and I broke her down into her basic shapes and as you can see we have contrasting shapes
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here for two reasons.
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So the first one is because first we start off with kind of a boxy shape for her hair and then we get
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kind of a round shape for her head and then it goes back to boxy shape and then it turns into kind of
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a triangle or trapezoid type shape and then it flips upside down into these little triangles so it's
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kind of going especially appear in our head it goes from a rough shape or a jagged shape to a rounder
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shape to a more jagged shape to a little bit of I guess not a soft shape but a triangle which is a little
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bit different than in a rectangular shape.
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So we're getting those contrasting shapes.
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So it's not just all a bunch of squares and it's not all just a bunch of triangles.
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We get different shapes next to each other.
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Another thing about these shapes is the proportions.
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So we are also getting these proportions that are contrasting so first we have our heads so you could
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think of it as one big shape or both these shapes.
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But either way it's one big shape and then her body is a tiny torso area or Chester is one little tiny
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rectangle and then it goes into the dress which is part of her costume so it's not really part of her
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body but the costume is still part of the character design and her dress goes into a bigger trapezoid
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shape and then her feet or legs go into these small little triangles.
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So we're getting that contrast.
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We're getting a big shape then a little shape than a big shape and then a little shape.
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So by applying contrast anywhere you can your characters and it's just going to make your drawings look
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much more appealing.
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So it's something to really take note of.
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Now while you're watching a movie or looking at a comic book or whatever I want you to really pay attention
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to these character designs and ones that you really like see where you can find all the different contrasting
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elements of that character design.
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Now this isn't to say that you'd have to use all of these all the time on all your characters sometimes
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you don't want contrasting textures on your character sometimes they won't even have texture.
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It'll just be flat 2D colors so you don't have to use all these all the time but it is good to at least
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apply one of these to your characters line whether it's texture contrast or its value contrast or color
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contrast whatever it is.
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It's really good to make sure that you apply one of these contrasts.
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If you don't your character designs just aren't going to come out looking as good as they could.
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All right.
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Thanks for watching this lecture.
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If you have any questions about contrast in character design please post them to the Q and A section
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of the course and I will answer them or my teacher assistant will.
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Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next lecture.
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