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Ricky De Los Angeles

Character Designer

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After graduating from CalArts, Ricky's creative career took off as a caricature artist, drawing at private events, the LA Zoo, and state fairs. Soon after, he joined Disney Consumer Products as a character artist where he produced artwork that is seen on Disney merchandise around the globe. He has contributed character designs to studios like Disney Tv Animation, House of Cool Studios for the show 'Pretzel and the Puppies', and illustrations for Disney/Pixar social media. Most recently he was a character designer at Nickelodeon on 'The Casagrandes.'

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Testimonials

I feel like a lot of the class was information I’ve heard over the years in other classes and through trying to learn through youtube tutorials, but it was condensed and presented in a way that gets you to think about a lot of things all at once while drawing. New information I took away from it was that iteration and exploration are key to good design. Before this class I would draw a character one way and then just try to make that one way work by drawing them the same way over and over maybe with slight differences, when its exploring the large differences that leads to better design. Also through practice and with Ricky’s feedback I feel I have a better grasp now on how to create balance and readability in a drawing.

Jacob

The feedback from teacher was really helpful to notice my weak point and improve my drawing skill.

Rachel