{"id":188434,"date":"2025-12-12T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188434\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:10:12","slug":"check-out-this-character-artists-fun-tribute-to-fifth-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/188434\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out this character artist’s fun tribute to Fifth Element"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patri Balanovsky is an experienced character designer, illustrator and art director from Israel who works mostly in the animation<\/a> and game industries. He is versed in all sorts of styles and genres, and is particularly fond of finding inspiration in cartoons and old films.<\/p>\n

Below, he shows us three pieces of personal work made using Photoshop<\/a> and Procreate<\/a> (see our guides to digital art software<\/a> and the best drawing tablets<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Pink Buns<\/p>\n

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\"Digital\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Patri Balanovsky)<\/p>\n

\u201cA character design where I was aiming for a more casual look, something that was very stylised and simple. The expressions sheet was just me goofing around\u201d<\/p>\n

You may like<\/p>\n

Felicia<\/p>\n

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\"Digital\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Patri Balanovsky)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis character design is a Darkstalkers fan art. I wanted to emphasise her feline-like, playful attitude rather than sexiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Super Green<\/p>\n

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\"Digital\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Patri Balanovsky)<\/p>\n

\u201cAn homage to the movie The Fifth Element. I was trying to create a cartoon interpretation of a fun and larger-than-life persona\u201d.<\/p>\n

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You can see more of Patri’s work on the his ArtStation profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more inspiration, see our feature on what is concept art?<\/a> and our character design tips.<\/a><\/p>\n

Daily design news, reviews, how-tos and more, as picked by the editors.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in ImagineFX. Subscribe to ImagineFX<\/a> to never miss an issue. Print and digital subscriptions are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patri Balanovsky is an experienced character designer, illustrator and art director from Israel who works mostly in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-188434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}