Quick Pro Character Design Techniques 2

It's easy to focus way too much on rendering when designing characters. A rough sketch, simple lines, and flat color are all it takes to design a professional character lineup. Check out my Free Line and Color Quick Start Guide: https://www.thedrawingcodex.com/yt/qu... To Learn A Simple Reliable Process. Join The Line and Color Academy: https://www.thedrawingcodex.com/yt/li... Join The Mighty Artisan Community: https://www.thedrawingcodex.com/yt/mi... To Take Your Art Projects To A Whole New Level. In this video: Character design often stalls because rendering and technique take over before the actual design is solved. The character, the pose, the silhouette, and the idea get buried under polish, and iteration slows to a crawl. This video demonstrates a simple, quick character design process in a fully narrated, real-time session. The project is a lineup of three science fiction bounty hunters for a game world: a human, a robot, and an alien. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 1:35 Welcome 1:53 How Design Works in Production 7:13 Same Process with Pencil and Paper 7:46 Brainstorming and Sketch Setup 10:12 Roughing In the Human Bounty Hunter 12:18 Roughing In the Robot 24:58 Roughing In the Alien 30:33 Horizon Lines and Character Scale 39:23 Structure Pass: Truing Up the Sketches 58:10 Line & Color Quick Start Guide 58:32 Finished Lines: The Alien 1:17:19 Finished Lines: The Robot 1:27:07 Finished Lines: The Human 1:38:59 Flat Color and Silhouette Check 1:46:13 Color Blocking the Lineup 2:19:54 Presentation Polish 2:27:31 Outro TOOLS FOR TODAY: Adobe Photoshop (basic pencil tool and brush tool at low opacity) Wacom Cintiq (24 inch) BOOKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED: Ghost in the Shell (manga) by Masamune Shirow Appleseed (manga) by Masamune Shirow PEOPLE MENTIONED: Masamune Shirow Rob Liefeld Ridley Scott Antonio Banderas Happy Drawing! Where To Find More About Tim Mcburnie: Learn Drawing and Illustration at The Drawing Codex: https://www.thedrawingcodex.com Take Your Career and Productivity To The Next Level: https://www.thedrawingcodex.com/yt/mi... The Drawing Codex Youtube Channel:    / @thedrawingcodex   Art Career and Productivity:    / @mightyartisan   Real Time Studio Sessions and The Art Ritual:    / @linexcolor   Portfolio: https://www.timmcburnie.com https://www.artstation.com/tim-mcburnie   / timmcburnie   https://x.com/timmcburnie