All language subtitles for 094 Character Design Demo One Part 2.en

OK.

So it's been another day.

I took a little at a time to step away from my work and I'm back again today on the third day.

And I got a lot of feedback from students in the course and the Facebook group.

And I asked them what they thought and they gave me a bunch of feedback so I'm going to apply some of

that feedback today.

Try a few things out and then what I'm going to do is I want to pick my favorite version and I'm going

to further.

So these are considered roughs and I'm going to further these rafts to a final finish piece of artwork

that could be considered a final character design.

So the first thing I want to do is I want to break these characters down into their kind of dynamic

lines and shapes and forms and I want to talk about that with you a little bit because we learned about

that in the course and so I want to show you kind of what was going through my head when I was designing

these different poses.

All right.

So first of all let's talk about the lines of action.

So with this pose these two poses right here they're basically the same.

So as I was drawing him I knew that there was kind of a curve to her back.

So I kind of her line of action kind of runs through her like that and then everything else has a line

action as well.

So we got a line of action through the by like that the calf goes like that scene with this other leg.

This arm kind of curves like that and curves that way but yeah.

So we get that line of action through that body if we look at this version right here see if the line

of action kind of curves like this and we kind of get an S curve.

So it's just kind of a slight S curve like that nice and subtle.

All right.

Everything else has a dynamic curve to it.

All right.

All right.

Even her hair has some curve to it on both sides.

Now let's talk about her axis so axis if you remember it.

Just kind of like the area so we get the vertical axis a run through the body so the center of the face

the center of the chest center of the pelvis.

Right.

We even get them running through the legs that we did on this character right here and see that upper

chest is like that the pelvis is like that this leg is like that.

Right.

So pretty dynamic looking they're all angled at different angles and that's what creates that dynamic

pose.

Now if we're looking at the horizontal ones they're gonna look more like this.

So if we look at this character the shoulder is up higher.

Her eyes are pretty much level the bottom of her chest.

And when we get to the hips it all changes because if you remember the vertical axis is we're like that.

So that means that everything about the horizontal axis is are also going to change.

So through the hips it's gonna be like that for the waist and hips like that and then the knees angle

like that feeling like that.

You can see we got all these really nice dynamic actresses and that's what we're looking for you'll

see the same thing on this character.

The shoulders are slightly tilted the head.

If we look at the eyes it's slightly tilted in the opposite direction.

The hips you can't see the other side but the hips are basically tilting like that because this hip

right there is much higher than the other one because this foot is kind of pushing it upwards right.

And the knees feet.

All right.

So all kind of all kinds of different angled actresses and that's what we're looking for when we're

drawing our character designs.

We're looking for all these different angled actresses and we're looking for those dynamic lines of

action.

So we don't just want a character of this character standing straight up and didn't have any weight

or more weight on one foot than the other one hip wasn't up higher than the other.

We're just kind of be a straight line and that would be incredibly boring.

We don't want that.

Another thing to talk about is the balance.

So it's really important that her characters have balance or if they look imbalanced that we'd do that

on purpose if they're like jumping or running that we're going to want them to look imbalanced.

But in this case right here we were she's just standing so we want to make sure that she looks balanced.

So if we draw a line coming straight down from the center of her chest that you can see that the line

lands between her two feet.

And not to mention she has a sword over here that she is also balancing on.

I think I could really do a little bit more to make her look a little bit more balanced like if I were

to take this whole section right here and kind of just swing it up and over just a tiny bit.

So this hip is kind of popping out more in that legs kind of going down more like that that look better

so if I do decide to continue on with this one right here and finish it off I'll definitely fix that

up.

Have a look at this character right here you can see if I draw a line coming down like that she looks

balanced because even though both of her feet are on that side of her center of gravity she has a sword

that she's leaning on and so that kind of acts as her third foot.

And so by having a cane or a sword or something in there you can always use that to help you balance

your characters.

So this pose definitely balance same with the other one is basically the same thing rather than leaning

on a sword.

She is leaning on her hand and this knife or this dagger which is stuck in this log.

So all of these poses are balanced and these are the things that I'm thinking of when I'm designing

my characters is do they look dynamic.

Did they have a dynamic pose.

Are they balanced.

And I'm paying attention to their shape language their proportions all that stuff.

That's what we're really focusing on when we're doing the roughs.

So first draw which is what I do with this great drawing line is that's just to kind of figure out what

the balances what the gesture is and what the shapes the proportions all that is.

And then the second rough which is this darker black line that's going to be for more detail.

So at that point you can still kind of change things but it's a lot more to figure out what the detail

is.

So the facial expressions of the hand pose all that stuff.

That's where you really detail it out and then we're gonna move on here in a second to the final version

which is where we really clean up our drawing clean up our lines make sure everything looks really good

and balance.

So things like her hip over here we have swing that over we change all that stuff and we would finish

it off as a polished piece of artwork.

Now like I said I had a bunch of students that gave me some feedback on these and so what I want to

do is I want to implement some of that feedback see if I like it.

If not that's ok but it's always good to get feedback from other artists other people see what they

think.

See if they can read your character and understand who they are and what they are.

So let's go ahead and begin

OK.

So I tried a few things out.

So first of all added some scales onto these sort of shoulder pads and armed guards.

I just thought it'd be interesting.

I just had that idea the last day so I thought I'd add that in there.

I like it.

So some of the feedback I got from students with this specific way of putting the sword on her back

as a lot of people said that it needed to either be in the small of her back or needed to be further

up.

So like up here I felt like it didn't look very good composition wise putting it up high but I do kind

of like it in the small of her back.

So I'm going to keep it there.

A few other things that I did as I tried rotating the sword on the second one right there.

I tried to add a little bit more dimension to it by showing kind of the edge right there of the sword

and kind of making it thinner because as the sword rotated around like this it would become thinner.

And so I tried that out see what that looked like.

And I also went ahead and I kind of moved her hips over a little bit to see how that looked and I think

that looks much better.

I think she looks more balanced.

I think it just looks like more of a natural pose.

So now what I have to do is I have to decide which one of these I want to take on to completion.

I could do all these maybe I will eventually but just for this video I'm just gonna do one for now.

So it really just comes down to personal preference which one you want to take to the final one.

But I will say that you should choose well if you can only do one character design drawing or painting

to really show people who your character is.

Do one that really kind of captures as much of their attitude as much of who they are as possible.

And so looking at these I think that this first one I actually did is probably going to be the best

one for that.

The reason for it is because she has a lot of facial expression her body has a lot of attitude in this

one.

You know she kind of looks like kick dragons butt and she has her sword on her back and I've heard that

that kind of signifies somebody is an adventurer so I wanted to look like an adventurer.

So I like that sword on her back and she's kind of stabbing a piece of wood.

So it's almost like maybe she's saying something somebody or somebody said something to her just dab

this log and just kind of making a point and giving him that look you know who knows.

I just feel like this one just tells the most about my character.

This one over here is cool too.

I can probably work it a little bit more to show a little bit more of her character but just because

this one's already so close to doing that I'm just gonna go ahead and further this one.

So what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna basically take this design and I'm just going to start on

a new layer or drawing paper and pencil you just draw the darker pencil or you could even trace it and

redraw it but I'm just going to basically clean up this drawing I want to make sure things like her

hand that the pose looks correct arm back here just everywhere where it looks really messy.

I'm going to fix it up when I make the line artwork look really clean and then we'll talk about it afterwards

OK.

I think that looks pretty good.

So as you can see I just cleaned up the lines so all the lines that used to be pretty messy.

I just kind of made them into one solid line.

I also paid attention to my line thickness and line quality so I'd like to point out is that anywhere

where you have lines crossing like this so let's say you have a line going like that and have a line

going into it like that or maybe even two lines what you want to do is want to make sure that you darken

that were those meets you want to make sure that you darken and thicken up that line right there right

there.

And it can taper off as it gets into these other areas but that will really help distinguish between

the different lines.

And I try to do that as best I could in here.

So see any areas where the lines meet.

So like right here for example on arm you can see that that part can be thickened up and it just kind

of helps the drawing along but still important you pay attention to your line quality if you're doing

a drawing of a character using line art.

If you're going to be painting them solid kind of like an oil painting or digital painting then you

have to worry about your line quality really.

But if you are doing lines make sure that you're paying attention to the line quality how thick and

thin how light and dark those are because that's gonna make a huge difference.

Another thing is that when it comes to line quality we want to make sure that we're getting that nice

dark thick lines in the areas where we want our viewers to focus.

So for example right here in the eyes I thickened up the lines on the profile a little bit more of my

character so that her profile kind of stands out a little bit more right.

So all that's really important

so now that we have a finished and full character design what we can do now is we can go ahead and add

some color to that.

So this is the really fun part.

Now you may be doing paper and pencil and that's fine.

You can use colored pencil or paint watercolors.

There's all different types ways to add color to your character designs if you're working in a digital

medium.

Then there's a plethora of ways to add color to this.

So I want to be working in Photoshop to add my color and I'll kind of explain that process along the

way.

So first off you can see right here that I have a color palette and I stole this from another character

design actually so I can't really steal color palettes.

They're just colors.

So so I kind of stole some of these eye color picked them off of another character design and these

are just kind of skin tones and I just kind of wanted to capture some of the same skin tones but I have

a feeling I'm probably actually end up changing these colors anyways and so I'll start with these and

all adjusted as I go and what I'm going to do is I'm going to start filling in different colors on here.

So for example if I go ahead and I take this light skin tone I'm going to start on a new layer underneath

my liner I'm going to start filling the sentence you can see if I start filling that in it fills in

underneath my liner and that's because I want to go back and change the color of my liner and I so want

to see that later so I can start filling hearse face in with this color for example I also want to make

sure that I'm keeping all of these on separate layers so that way I can adjust them as I want so I'll

keep all the skin tones on one layer.

So for example I'd fill our face in anywhere else where it shows our skin which actually that's basically

it's just her face so her face would be one layer and then I would add a new layer.

For let's say her clothing.

So let's say I grabbed a green just go on just this more of a green color.

I don't know if that'll be a good color but let's just say I wanted to fill in this part of her clothes

like this probably make all of our clothing on one layer so the more I can separate these layers the

more I can adjust those colors later.

So I want to make sure that I keep everything nice and separate.

And so yeah I'm going to go and fill in all the colors and I'll see you when I'm done.

Now that we have all those base colors painted in it's time to start adding some color to our line work.

So because I'm working in Photoshop that allows me to actually paint in my line work the way I do this

is by creating a clipping layer mask.

Now if you're working in a digital software there should be a way to do this.

So in Photoshop.

I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to my line or work which is it should be at the very top.

There it is.

I'll just add a new layer above that right click it create a clipping layer mask.

And what that allows me to do is if I go ahead and select let's say for example this color right here

now I can go ahead and grab a better brush for this.

Now I can go ahead and I can paint in my line work as you can see right there.

I can change color of it just by painting it in Oregon to race it out.

And it only goes onto that layer.

So that's what I'm gonna be doing for this next step.

And the way I'm going to be choosing my colors is I want the color to be kind of a darker version of

whatever its next.

So on the face for example you can see that I can colored in with this darker kind of version of the

skin tone.

I can do the same thing on the nose right.

And that just kind of helps soften everything up a little bit.

Another example would be if I come down here let's say on her hair for example if I go ahead and select

her hair I'm gonna go ahead and drop that color down so it's a lot darker maybe a little bit more saturated

and I can go ahead and fill that line work in with that color

so there we go.

So we added that color to the line.

And it really just kind of livens it up softens the lines up a little bit.

So it's a little bit easier on the eyes are not such a harsh dark lines everywhere and it just kind

of makes the colors pop a little bit more.

And it makes it feel more like a round three dimensional shape rather than being a two dimensional flat

cartoon.

Now as I go through this design of the color you'll notice that I adjust things a lot along the way

and I'll continue to do that.

That's a big part about color design is that you want to adjust things as you go along figure out what

looks best together so you might have noticed that I change the color of the wood of the log or the

bark I change the color of this dark kind of a dark grayish blue color used to be a lighter blue color

and I kind of do saturated that and darkened it.

And so I'm just playing around with all this until I get it to the colors that I want and I'll continue

to do that throughout this character design

the last part is going to be adding in all of our detail or shading highlights and shadows stuff like

that.

So I'm going to go ahead begin what I'm going to do is I'm going to first start by painting on individual

layers so where I have my color layers so the skin layer for example I'm going to add in some shading

on that layer I'll add in some blush and then I'll go from there.

The next step after that will be to take all my layers and combine them together so that they're one

solid layer and they're going to go ahead and just start doing some digital painting on top of that

and just add whatever else I want to add in there.

So let's go ahead and begin

all right.

So here we go.

A completely finished character concept design.

We went through the whole entire process from start to finish.

I started off of this character design without even any idea of what it was gonna be so you kind of

kind of got to see me develop the idea as it went along.

I added feedback to it and I colored it and everything.

So I really hope you enjoyed watching this and I'll see you next time.