Alien Wildlife Biologist Character Design with Chris Blackstock - 1 of 2 | Adobe Creative Cloud

Join Chris Blackstock on Adobe Live as he draws an alien wildlife biologist using Photoshop. Watch as Chris walks you through the character design process, from ideation and sketching to final design. Stick around to help Chris explore his new character and create different scenes for the biologist.

Guest Chris Blackstock is an Illustrator, concept artist, taste-maker, donut eater, based in CA: https://theblackstock.com/ | https://www.behance.net/chrisblackstock

Host Codi Bear is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon:

https://www.behance.net/codibear

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Chapters

00:00 Start

00:38 Introduction

02:10 Chris’ introduction

05:27 Plan for the design for Day 1

06:57 Inspiration moodboard

09:00 Exploration sketches

11:15 Designing begins

21:25 Designing the face

23:50 Early art influences

30:45 Using reference

31:48 Social media as an artist

38:08 Studying anatomy

51:05 Full character design

55:30 Canvas size and DPI

1:09:30 Companion creature reference

1:17:45 Lizard companion drawing

1:27:52 Adding gear to the character

1:43:25 Clean lines

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Alien Wildlife Biologist Character Design with Chris Blackstock - 1 of 2 | Adobe Creative Cloud

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