Creative Character Exploration: Aliens
In this series of lessons, we will be focusing on how to quickly generate character ideas based on an initial shape. Software required: Photoshop CS5.
What you'll learn
In this series of lessons, we will be focusing on how to quickly generate character ideas based on an initial shape. We'll get started by examining each individual shape to see which character features could be associated with the different areas of the shape. Next we'll lay a foundation of quick, loose, pencil-like line work, flushing out some of the details of our character. During this phase, we will learn a variety of different ways to draw the features and forms that relate to a alien type characters. From there we will refine our line work with more confident inked lines. Finally we'll look at a quick method of applying color in the form of cell shading to our character concepts. Software required: Photoshop CS5.
Table of contents
- Shape One: Roughing in Our Line Work 15m
- Shape One: Refining Our Line Work 11m
- Shape Two: Roughing in Our Line Work 15m
- Shape Two: Refining Our Line Work 14m
- Shape Three: Roughing in Our Line Work 15m
- Shape Three: Refining Our Line Work 17m
- Shape Four: Roughing in Our Line Work 17m
- Shape Four: Refining Our Line Work 16m
- Shape Five: Roughing in Our Line Work 12m
- Shape Five: Refining Our Line Work 13m
- Appling Base Color 7m
- Applying Shadows and Highlights 15m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more