Harmony Essentials
Design with Harmony Essentials
This course takes you through all the essentials concepts to design characters and background as well as colour style them in Harmony Essentials.
4 Modules
8 hours 25 mins
Character Design with Harmony Essentials
Learn about designing characters with good proportions, and construction in Harmony Essentials.
Introduction to Character Design
Character Design Basic Steps
Character Proportions
Character Model Sheets
Relative Size of Characters
Character Design Preparation
Activity 1: Sketching a Character
Activity 2: Sketching the Details
Activity 3: Tracing the Character
Activity 4: Deconstructing a Character (Optional)
Background Design
Learn to design background with solid perspective notions and interesting composition.
Colour Styling
Learn about colour schemes and how to colour style your designs.
Introduction to Colour Styling
Design Organization
Basic Colour Theory
Colour Anatomy
Standard Colour Wheel
Yurmby Colour Wheel
Colour Schemes
Monochromatic Colour Scheme
Complementary Colour Scheme
Analogous Colour Scheme
Triadic Colour Scheme
Split Complementary Colour Scheme
Tetradic Colour Scheme
Warm and Cool Colour Scheme
How Our Brain Understands Colours
Building a Simple Palette
Preparing Your Research
Adding to a Colour Scheme
Thumbnailing
Gamut Mapping
Activity 1: Creating a Colour Palette
Activity 2: Creating a Five-Colour Palette
Activity 3: Painting a Colour Model
Character Model Clean Up and Colour with Harmony Essentials
In this module, you will learn how to design a colour model using reference lines as well as how to create a colour palette.