Story Driven Shapes: Character Design Tips with David Colman

David's Doodles gives you advice on how to create a story behind your character designs. In this lesson you’ll learn to capture who your characters are and how your design choices create a history and personality for them. David shows you how he achieves this by sketching this process with a couple monkeys and talking about his thought process behind designing the shapes for the characters.

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[praisethesun]

This level of content production is insane.

[BenMellingerArt]

I'm loving all these videos on character design! thanks proko!

[cfan]

David Colman is one of my favorite artists ever! His art is so expressive and beautiful. I always challenge myself by trying to capture his unique styles of art.

[gray_rain]

"I've worked on several bigger projects, and a lot of smaller ones *as we all have*."
[Cries in non-professional entertainment artist]

I think most of Proko's audience, like me, can't relate to that statment. lol 😂....😭

[themute]

I love Davids attitude to character design, thank you! Very fun and creative.

[jamesklark]

Some of us just want to know the brush because we think it looks good and want to incorporate it into our own work, it's not because we think it's the only brush for the job.

[mr.momoironezakeco.]

This was amazing the explanations, the energy, the advice .... made me not only inspired but honestly happy 😊. Muchas Gracias 🙏 Thank you so much already a member & will join this course 😌

[rivwilson]

Proko has been killing it in 2021. So so loving your platform so much

[brayan_lopes]

I really like this type o videos where you can see how long it takes for the drawings to be perfect. We look at their drawings and we think our favorite artists don't commit mistakes. I wish I could see the same type of videos with some Mangakas and Comic book artists.

[momo-xhbm]

Love the vivid way when you play out the jumping ape.😂😂😂

[knightshousegames]

4:17 this just blew my mind

Like I feel like I've been doing this to some extent subconsciously on my own pieces more recently, but this articulates the idea so well, really puts it into focus

It feels so obvious now, but before I could never put it into words

[bwildtattoo]

Love the tip about the features!!! Great teacher too. Thanks

[Kikoo_arts]

Thanks for the tips! Its so inspiring 💕

[illustratornamedkasper]

great vid, it's really a helpful tip to think of the background and personality of the character when you draw it !

[Stygian]

I love David's work. Such cool stuff

[mhaipeter]

salute to stan and david for such great content - and its for free ! interesting that you dont just lasso the forearms and scale them but find a new pose right away.

[arthobbitworks]

Your work is really well done and what you are saying rinds true too. Love the t shirt as will.

[Norangelll]

I love how he is having fun while drawing and imagining all the stories. I would like to be like that 😂❤

[koljak]

You guys are offering too many great courses this year! How am I supposed to do all of this?! [pulling hair in desperation]

[mics]

This one video had more info than courses out there