In the next two chapters I'll be doing an example of civil wedding an example of line art
Show you one example of each however make sure you do the missions
Since we're actually starting our character designs now
At this point you should be familiar with photoshop
Have a brief written for your character all characters
Created reference boards for you to refer to in the process and understand how to generate visual ideas from those
At this stage
We're creating thumbnails which is the initial exploration sketch
For your caring
It is important to do this
Because the best ideas
Come from exhausting all the signs you can come up
For the same car
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Show your client or art director multiple directions
You can take for one character is also a safer way to guarantee
That's the best design is crazy
And chose
Designers never single straight path it's more like a pyramid where we can start off with many possibilities
And continually eliminate the weaker designs until the end
With the best
In terms of numbers
They do vary depending on whether you do silhouette or do line
4 silhouettes I like to do around 5 to 7 ideas and for lineart I do 3 hours
This is because why not takes longer
And is also more intricate compared to Silhouettes
If your briefs for multiple characters in the same world
Then I expect that amount for each car
Silhouette
It's going to be uncomfortable but please give it a shot
Remember when we consider the identity of the characters archetype and
To do that we must have done
A bit of research and preparation for myself I'm going to use this proof that
Before
Behave command cassette
I'm still going to this really quickly
This is a
Well that is the commander of its army
Tall sleek bearskin
An
Wheels
Stays or daggers
It should look decorative
Unlike the console soldier
There should be a constant look about his expression
And also have my reference board here
So this is a fresh one that made
Just for this
And you can see as I said before there are existing
Some things from real life
And some other objects that are directly related to
The concept itself
You're good
Variety of things to look at the help inspire me to create
A strong concert
I'm in the shapes you can see the
Is a lot of decorative looking armour
Have you got stuff like this just to look at
Some ideas to for ornamental looking
Design and also some more organic things to suggest that his one of nature
In a following sample in Lionel I'm going to be using another method for
But in this one I'm just going to use this one reference board Plus
This brief that are brilliant
I won't be going
The ASDA order
The brief
Is requesting which is more stylized I'll be going for something more realistic because in the lineart I'll be doing something more star list
So you can get c
Two versions of would I do something more realistic with this Sunday Little League and something more stylised with
So without further ado I'm going to get into it
Maybe we should have a look at some shapes with a quickly only mention some organic flowing lines from
Things from nature
I want to create something strong to suggest that commander I want to have
Directions to point forward for the head studies
How much are helpful and maybe shoulders this is cool
I like that strong square-shaped there too
Create a sense of reliability
What gender is that
Sense of strength from this triangle shape on the top Sunday try get a blend of that
I really
This idea for the clock that hangs over isn't exactly part of the armour
Anything can be separate and also really liked
Confession like this
Design on the chest so I'm going to try and cope with these ideas
The hair I think is on the back but like we can still think of something
This is just a random Concept that I thought might be interesting
Confused
If you can't already I am doing this part live it's not voice end then
Editing I feel like I doing this it's a lot more natural
If you want points before I get started if you want to draw your family in 3-ft I think this is going to save you
In the future that is the hard part about doing silly wedding it's hard to draw things in perspective but
In three quarter means like if this is fun on
Hello my name is
This
See how the center is shifted to the right a little bit rather than being down the mid
So it looks like we're
Looking from
Not side view not front view but in between 3
And I'm going to be using a hot air brush
So you can see like this is quite hard there is a bit of
Impression that song
Controlling a pasty
Last night
Nothing fancy
The good thing about this is we get a lot of control for lovely crane and
Important that we
We don't create Mark's Dad
Confusing for our
If we send a talk higher
Director
The only way so that they understand what they say
And
What you create might be interpreted differently
If you have a shave
So that's why I'm using this harder
What's the faster I think like
She had to use something like this
Stay long time for dinner listening soft brush will be very
How to get a clean silhouette
Remember some
What's the Siri 4yb crowd silhouettes
A white summer pudding
Because
It is the foundation to
House design for games
We see satellites from the distance we're not always Indian on a characters face this is
Identity of a character bicycle
So I'm gonna be using some remixes
Like I said say grabbing ideas with former that club before 4 I want to change the
The shapes to be more Alvin and
Less fashion looking and more
Aggressive looking
This is a war Commander
In the brief it mentioned
How the self
Can absorb life force from the forest
To bring balance and control
That energy to provide protection to the surrounding nature in return so they kind of like it's a trade
They get to borrow the energy of nature and in return they protect nature
Using my lasso
Making selections and transforming
I'm not really down to any lines everything it's very very quick to make changes like that
I don't know after make a selection
I have to do is press control and tea to get cats for me
And as I said the shapes that we identified just ended now reference board
We want we want to see them in the silhouette so
I'm trying to make it look as if it's possible of avoiding just the human figure like this
Because then whatever you really designing is just this just the human that's not very interesting
So we don't want that
How to find shapes In The Armour
How to show the things in nature
I had this really cool idea with this one when I was thinking
Maybe
Amersham fair skin but I might change because of love it like maybe
They can be more good Incorporated since they do borrow the magic of nature what if they become
Naturelo B and have
Wood elements in there
Tesco
So what is that
CV library
Despite adding some wood holds
And I want them to look taller and sleek dry so
Something very important even lie to make someone look tall
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We have to change
The head proportion to the body
Short characters like babies or children
The head to body ratio
The head will be bigger in comparison
So I think it might be good too
Make this dinner smaller
Again warning that fun on you so if these feed points to
One Direction towards the side all is one of them that way then it will feel like it's 3 quid
Sense of confidence so what does Chester pop out song
Squeezing this
Chest silhouette Elizabeth pushing upwards
I mentioned something in the first chapter which was my keybind
Canvas
And I want a little bit more about that and why
So
Flipping the canvas doesn't matter for civil wedding or if you're using line art
Useful
Because it helps gives you a fresh Thai
On
York
And what if you're driving like a refresher is your eye
So that you can find
I've never done that before where you draw on paper and then bring up to the light
I look from the back and you know this all these mistakes
That's exactly the same as this
So flip
Often and that will really help you find any issues
Morning dancers
I want the cake to be made of leaves or something so I want
Show that identity
Office
And just a silhouette it doesn't mean you have to go 100-percent that way
Using lines to show
Different section I think this is good because I'll be having to say that but
It's good for the graphic read
So
To distinguish for the body silhouette from the cape
I just looked up on empty
That is Innocence graphic read
Will be doing very soon
I found this really cool tree
And I want that shape to inspire the staff
Mattress sizes just a little bit smaller
As I mentioned you guys should be doing around 7 of the thumbnails
They are fast compared to line on I'll only be doing one because of time issues
You can keep you watching these and yeah don't don't be overly hot
Lights off and expect yourself to be able to
Do they sing in one go
I'll do it as fast as I'm doing it it's going to take a few tries it's going to be slow compared to how I do
I've done this for years so
Definitely faster
Accurate Anatomy see how I still
Suggest the shape of Cartier right
The Shane vs the cast has that shape
Cloth or anything I'm ready sort of seeing that as I go
Ok
As I said we have to clean up your silhouette so it's not
A bit ambiguous about what the details are
I'm just looking American sports right now just to see if there's anything else I could
AmEx interest
Some more long flowing things here maybe the hair comes up
Is my female character but I
Characters of mum
Special K characters can have get away with that
Resize it up again
I hope you are also did the silhouette on a new layer ok so just pressed something you later
At this point the silhouette itself is good now we want to move onto the next part of which is
21 who's unclear about what graphic read is it is
The inherent value of a material from sample
For me I'm in Asian male so I
Black hair
And that is a darker belly than my skin my skin is Warfare on the tone and then if I were a white shirt
Then it's like in my skin
So there's different values she doesn't matter what kind of light do you have on it the hair will always be dark
Set my skin my skin will be dark in the shirt ok
So
We can use this InDesign to separate different materials
And to separate different section
Of a character we can separate the face from the body
And
The
Start from the hands by seeing different
And I'll show you the example
And make sure you don't get confused with riding when you're doing that agreed this is nothing feels like this is purely
Inherent value
So just like the examples I told you just
So you can do
Your graphic weed on a new layer make sure you make a new layer you can use a clipping mask so you can stay within the boundaries
Silhouette some ideas might not have the full value because your silhouette might have for love passaddhi
Fix that
Finger backwards let's go back one day off just duplicate a layer and then most of those two so I like both
Right-click
Can you layer
Clip and
Imagine fair skin for
This character in the grayscale colours so I'm
Skin time again nothing to do with lying
What is purely
Traffic read
I think one quick thing you could do
Pest control you and Ellis
The doctor if your cat is going to be
I'm only light up which I think that I want to do I want to make my
My elf have whitish armour then you can make it lighter
And if you do that then make a background darker singing to your character
Blackbox
So the skin is still lighter than
The armour that's what I want to do
You can suggest a bit of like
Detail like two eyes
It's not too important at the stage
Play something in
Now
Placeholder
I think I want to make the hair lighter as well
I'm going on the original they have because
If I use the clipping master I have no value to to paint into no pixels
Go back to the first layer of paint in
How many use three values and I'm doing this crap agreed stage 1 darklands mid 1life value I think when you
To go over
That number it gets a little bit confusing an automatic
Value for their
Would part of the decide how that connects into the hole
See how a separating
Material try
I might use black
And separate some of the internal so this is
Designing inside of silver now how can we break up different sections owners be able to separate the head
From the chest from the arm
All that
Flights to
Designs
I told his cutlines so it's separating larger chunks
Flights and I'm use that padding that I said I like on that fashion design
Anywhere that has no arm on I might just fill in with dog
To suggest maybe that's a half or something that feels in that space
You not go back to your original there as well
If you want to edit the silhouettes and more you're not down to
Stay on the clipping mask layer
I want to separate this section of the shoulder
Shoulder pad tube
Different
Maybe there's a dog
Operation
But designing he should still incorporate the shapes that you have in your bored
Head on your silhouette
Midsection cheesecloth I make it dark
And then armour pieces on the shoulder if you like them
Does any detailing on your armor you can also use lines to
The capture
She loves s shapes for the interior
Mid shaped medium-sized shapes of arm
The detailing
Someone use that
And when we spoke that large mediumship
So the nail shapes which uses S's
They should be here as well make the slider value
And for those unclear
We're not going for masterpiece at this point this is still just the preliminary stage of your character design
So don't spend too much time on the small details think big
Get all the big details down
Don't worry about materials or lighting or anything like that
Am I making
I'm thinking I should make this
Stand up
Or
Should it be
Just hanging down
I do kind of have 4 values you two separate things
Is a bit tricky
I might want to
Rethink that
Maybe there's a dark last year
So there's a back cape in this like a front cloth as well
This particle after console show some stuff with lines and showing some fault with line work
Not sure to do it without this arm yet maybe I should make it
Quick is casting some magic you
Join the hand
Since it is the same value
Ideally you should be separated in your
Skin tone with the
Closing but
I want discounted feel quite light in its armouring and skin tones so
Unfortunately
In this case we can't really do much about that
MyFitnessPal
Kaka
Because of the woods slowly gets light at horse and tops enable do that it's like a gradient because from Dark to light
And we've got most of the details down now but there's a lot of cleaning up Seaham
Talking about ambiguous shapes and ambiguous details
I might actually much this so I made a copy of ship and selecting multiple in the most
And hide what's underneath
What's happening around his neck area
I think we've figured it out yet maybe this
Is a separation year loads of cloth
Remember
It's not only good for your viewers to see a clean silhouette also helps you
Greatly in the later stages of your Design and rendering if you get this part oven cleaner
Skip over this make sure it's nice and clean take your time
I want to add some leafy details in here now
Once we've got this design was settled you started going to the smallest detail on my Hubsan
Trims like this
Decoration
You just suggest that for now then figure it out in the range
Figure it out now that's all so good like I said safety time it later on
Flipping
Stoke score
You should rotate this layer by the horns on the top also get kind of white towards
Tip
It makes what does is it brings attention to these areas now because of that contrast
So you can see this operation you can see anything that is armour
Is this value lighter lighter grey darker
Cloth and white is another cloth or skin
This part is classed as well maybe I should separate this lightly
And I said three Valleys but if you have to break a rule sometimes just to separate materials then
You can do it but only men you really can't think of any other Solutions and I think
For the best as well
We have you had this love some really excited to push this further forward in the next videos
Gets a detailed insole
Ok
Bitmore cleanup
I think the sides and it's looking pretty good
So the breakdown is character
The is some sense of direction in the head what should rollers on a new layer
Fraction the head with the shapes you can see there's organicness
In here
Smaller Lines
In a flow in fact actually white one is shown more flow
In the in the staff
It feels more organic and natural maybe it has like branches
Comes off as well the call may be slight connected to the ground and can appear anywhere there
Thomson
Halfords round trickle
Shakira something
Laibach dinosaur
Have your background character if you're doing a stalker character have a
Background
Until you have more rendering when you have rendering then it's easier to separate your character but for now
Silhouette or sketch it's better to get contrast
So I had added to Shirley or you can see it being repaired
Inside
Triangle shapes in here
Flowing lines on the inside
My medium steaks on menu
Many men of Jesus
Two separate
Different sections of the character
I don't really have any small detail yet I think small details you could argue
Been like this
Cineline to you there's a little bit seeing you as well
So that's about it for the silhouette now the words on make sure you present your silhouettes nicely
So number each one and place them in Rose if you have multiple characters if you just
For now then just 25-27 thumbnails is good but you still have the number then
Who do some line actimels next
Whether you're interested or not I would highly suggest you follow along and create a character in line on see you