Jason Chan Character Design 1: Style Exploration – Adobe Photoshop

Sometimes a client has a strong story but they don’t know exactly what they want for the visual look of their game or movie. Enter the ChanMan.

In this video we see him go through a broad range of stylistic iterations based on the same lead male character. The client can then use these ideas and move forward with a much clearer visual direction. This gets to the heart of concept art, and the more an artist is able to work in a variety of different styles the more he/she will be able to help a client, and get paid, and then have kids, or maybe a fast car.

1 hour, 1024 x 768, Quicktime

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Duration : 0:4:31


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25 Responses to “Jason Chan Character Design 1: Style Exploration – Adobe Photoshop”

  • immortaliserwow says:

    ”he/she will be …
    ”he/she will be able to help a client, and get paid, and then have kids, or maybe a fast car.” rofl :D
    btw how much does a concept artist earn a year? aproximately?

  • Alzion says:

    rofl at you moving …
    rofl at you moving around the edge of the screen xD

  • tfcdomprice says:

    Correction, His… …
    Correction, His… the *ao at the end of his name always throws me off.

  • tfcdomprice says:

    #3 is the style I’m …
    #3 is the style I’m using for an RPG story I’m designing (and have been on and off for the past 10 years). Thanks for posting this. I’m trying to get a better idea of how to draw them. I’ve always been a fan of Tetsuya Nomura’s art and have recently gained an affinity for Nao Ikeda’s style, especially her play on real life outfits, and the thoroughness of her concepts.

  • katana2665 says:

    How much money an …
    How much money an artist gets is dependent on many things. How well he negotiates, knowledge of his own value vs. the market and the end use of the character. By the time you get to character design for something like ‘Ice Age’ (peter deseve) you know how much you can ask for. If you are doing a cartoon dog for a small start up, you can figure about 35-50 after that it’s all in who you are doing it for.

  • PrinceOF9Imagination says:

    mmm, I didn’t get …
    mmm, I didn’t get that very well( I’m not a native English speaker BTW), but I hope someday I’ll do it :)

  • sergeistarko says:

    Try to contact …
    Try to contact Disney ( $37B revenue company ) with character as appealing as Mickey Mouse was. As long as this new character allows them to make another additional $3B per year, you will be paid as much as you can imagine. So stop watching youtube and go drawing.

    ^_^

  • PrinceOF9Imagination says:

    WOW, that’s a lot!! …
    WOW, that’s a lot!!!! I wonder why?

  • sergeistarko says:

    For characters like …
    For characters like Mickey Mouse, Sponge Bob and Superman…. Mmmmm let me think… Maybe a billion USD, not sure…..

    ^_^

  • PrinceOF9Imagination says:

    Sorry, but I didn’t …
    Sorry, but I didn’t understand that. What does it mean?

  • SupaPoopaScoopa says:

    Thats only for pink …
    Thats only for pink furry bunny rabbits

  • PrinceOF9Imagination says:

    I thought they get …
    I thought they get about 20000$ per a character.

  • SupaPoopaScoopa says:

    Depends on the …
    Depends on the status of artist.
    Contracts are normally time based not asset based. Though on DeviantArt there are lots of people offering rates per character. Prices vary generally from 20$ to up around 250$
    depending how good the artist is.

  • PrinceOF9Imagination says:

    Does anybody know …
    Does anybody know how much money does a character designer get per a character?????????

  • Shinsou10 says:

    holy crap 5ft by …
    holy crap 5ft by 3ft? that’s huge!!

  • myoneandonly89 says:

    me too XD I was …
    me too XD I was like “Wut where you goin’???”

  • MortalLuc says:

    People who think …
    People who think Jason Chan uses fancy-pancy photoshop plugins that instantly make your drawings “leet” are dumb. He clearly only used standard photoshop brushes in this video. I prefer artists like Jason Chan who don’t use fancy plugins, I think a drawing made out of some simple, basic, hard brushes look a lot more artistic!

    Go Jason Chan! You are my hero! I follow your examples and I wish to become as good as you! Well, if I would master only half of your skills I would already be happy. :P

  • otakuofanime says:

    @homeworld4

    not …
    @homeworld4

    not neccisarily
    ive seen people do stuff oof equal quality with gimp and gimp plugins

  • demoncentral says:

    i would agree …
    i would agree except i think you would need much more than plugins such as a steady hand and good eye maybe a tablet if this is done in mouse than i doubt most will reach this level in the time limit of it almost being magical

  • jackotag says:

    lol
    lol

  • crimsonBen says:

    u mean u can get to …
    u mean u can get to his level with a PS plugin?!

  • EbonyShadow07 says:

    “Everyone has nice …
    “Everyone has nice hair. And fashionable clothes.”
    True enough. ^^

  • homeworld4 says:

    Yes, I agree, his …
    Yes, I agree, his skill is clearly unreachable due to technical limitations. You could easily, almost magically progress to his level, if only you had those industry-level photoshop plugins!

  • homeworld4 says:

    Because the size of …
    Because the size of the tablet is clearly direcly proportional to the quality of the artwork, am i right?

  • whitescape says:

    lol
    lol

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