Vertex Week: speedpainting a character design with Jackie Droujko

Speedpainting a character design

Netflix character designer Jackie Droujko lives in Vancouver and her credits include Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures, Warner Brother’s Deathstroke, and several more unannounced projects that you can see very soon.

For Vertex Week 2022 Droujko has two tutorials, this second video workshop covers her process for speedpainting a character design for animation. She goes through the initial research stage before revealing her process in Photoshop.

If you enjoyed this tutorial from Jackie Droujko, then watch her first Vertex Week 2022 video tutorial where she shares her workflow for how to warm up your animation design, before this speedpaint or similar character design project.

Vertex Week schedule

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If you want more design tips for animation then watch Aaron Blaise's workshop where he explains how to design creatures for animation. The legendary character artist takes us through his thought processes for creating memorable animal heroes.

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Ian Dean
Editor, Digital Arts & Design

Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & Design at Creativebloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and leading video game title Official PlayStation Magazine. In his early career he wrote for music and film magazines including Uncut and SFX. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on AI, digital art and video game art and tech, and more to Creative Bloq, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5. He's also a keen Cricut user and laser cutter fan, and is currently crafting on Glowforge and xTools M1.