Designing Characters Using Adobe Fresco
52mBeginner2020-05-06
Authors
Renee di Cherri
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe - Drawing and Painting
Course details
Learn how to approach character design and get a better understanding of the powerful illustration tools in Adobe Fresco. In this course, instructor Renee di Cherri explains how to use this digital drawing and painting app—optimized for touch-based devices like the iPad—to bring your character to life. Learn how to use a mindmap to build your imagined world and guide the ideation process of creating your character and what they look like. Then discover how to sketch thumbnail drawings directly in Fresco and turn them into crisp linework with its vector brushes and painting tools. Finally, find out how to add color and final touches to your character, such as realistic fur and lighting, and use companion apps like Photoshop for the iPad to create variations on your character.
Topics include:
Starting a Fresco project
Creating a mindmap
Sketching thumbnails
Refining thumbnails
Creating line art with vector brushes
Simulating fur
Lighting characters
Changing color schemes
Topics include:
Starting a Fresco project
Creating a mindmap
Sketching thumbnails
Refining thumbnails
Creating line art with vector brushes
Simulating fur
Lighting characters
Changing color schemes
Skills covered
FrescoComic Book IllustrationCharacter AnimationDrawingGraphic DesignAdobeAnimation and IllustrationOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - What is character design
- 02 - Follow along with the exercise files
1. Bring Your Character to Life with Preparation
- 03 - Set up your Adobe Fresco project
- 04 - Explore the color module and pick a palette
- 05 - Create your mindmap
- 06 - Use mindmapping to develop your character's world
- 07 - Gather photo reference
- 08 - Begin sketching thumbnails
2. Creating Crisp Vector Line Art from a Sketch
- 09 - Turning a thumbnail into a perfect sketch
- 10 - Create crisp line art using vector brushes
3. Color, Render, and Apply Final Touches on Your Character Design
- 11 - Use live brushes to simulate fur using layers, part 1
- 12 - Use live brushes to simulate fur using layers, part 2
- 13 - Lighting effects for the finishing touch on boots and fringes
- 14 - Lighting effects for the finishing touch on garment and gloves
- 15 - Lighting effects for the finishing touch on the face
- 16 - Changing color schemes with Photoshop for iPad
Conclusion
- 17 - Resources