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This course aims to provide the necessary knowledge to craft simplistic and flat characters that can be used for personal projects and client work.
This course welcomes artists, illustrators, and graphic designers to create stylized character designs using Adobe Illustrator with a focus on keeping things simple, expressive, and intentional. This course will increase the skills of those who already obtain basic knowledge regarding Adobe Illustrator. Participants will learn how Al Refai’s methods regarding approaching character creation by exploring different ways to draw faces, bodies, proportions, and poses. Moreover, participants will play with various styles while covering the basics of shape, color, and shading to help develop characters that feel both original and visually strong.
Beyond basic illustrating, this course further looks at how character illustration works in the real world. Participants will discuss understanding the human form and how to simplify or transform it into something unique, as well as how characters can be used for branding. By the end of this course, participants will have a clearer sense of how to create illustrations that not only look good but also serve a purpose and fit a brand’s identity.
Course Objectives:
- Learning to create simplistic characters
- Gaining the ability to establish a greater understanding of cartoony and semi-realistic characters
- Understanding colors
- Understanding characters and environments
Course Outcomes:
- To learn to craft your own characters on Adobe Illustrator
- To color the characters with unique palettes
- To create poses
- To learn how to create styles that suit personal or corporate use
Recommended for:
Artists, Illustrators, Graphic designers.
Facilitator
Ahmad Al Refai
A self-taught artist who has worked in the Graphic design and illustration fields for over 17 years. He has worked with local brands as well as international ones, such as Google and Snapchat. Based in Kuwait, Ahmed’s work focuses on combining modern and classic elements with a hint of localization.
