Character Design- A Complete Guide to Drawing 2D Characters

Character Design: A Complete Guide to Drawing 2D Characters, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 105 lectures, 1 quizzes, based on 151 reviews, and has 16639 subscribers.

You will learn about Download a 100-page PDF with Skill-Testing Worksheets! Use a 2-Step Character Design Workflow How to Create Amazing Characters From Scratch How to Draw Better Muscle Anatomy How to Give Your Character a Dynamic Pose How to Understand Fabric Folds for Clothes How to Produce Lineart, Add Color, and Cel Shade Digitally How to Draw the Human Face Accurately This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone new to drawing who wants to learn how to draw better characters or Anyone who wants to learn character design for movies, video games, comics, or cartoons It is particularly useful for Anyone new to drawing who wants to learn how to draw better characters or Anyone who wants to learn character design for movies, video games, comics, or cartoons.

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Summary

Title: Character Design: A Complete Guide to Drawing 2D Characters

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 105

Number of Quizzes: 1

Number of Published Lectures: 105

Number of Published Quizzes: 1

Number of Curriculum Items: 106

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 106

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Download a 100-page PDF with Skill-Testing Worksheets!

Use a 2-Step Character Design Workflow

How to Create Amazing Characters From Scratch

How to Draw Better Muscle Anatomy

How to Give Your Character a Dynamic Pose

How to Understand Fabric Folds for Clothes

How to Produce Lineart, Add Color, and Cel Shade Digitally

How to Draw the Human Face Accurately

Who Should Attend

Anyone new to drawing who wants to learn how to draw better characters

Anyone who wants to learn character design for movies, video games, comics, or cartoons

Target Audiences

Anyone new to drawing who wants to learn how to draw better characters

Anyone who wants to learn character design for movies, video games, comics, or cartoons

Do you want to be able to draw characters from your imagination?

Perhaps you want to draw characters for video games or movies? Or start your own comic series?

If you said yes, this is the perfect course to learn character design.

You’ll learn the entire process from understanding shapes and shape language, to drawing the human head & figure. You’ll learn how to draw several poses for your characters; understand how lighting can effect the mood and style of your character; and transform your hand-drawn character into digital art.

Enroll now and get instant access to:

18.5+ hours of video lessons

100 page workbook PDF

Student drawing community

Premium Instructor support

Lifetime updates to the class

How does the course work?

Jump right in with drawing warm up exercises. Then, learn our recommended tools and jump right into drawing character silhouettes. From there, you’ll learn how simple shapes can give off different feelings – friendly vs. mean, good vs. evil, etc. You’ll then learn how to draw the human head and figure.

Once you’ve learned all of these basics, you’ll put it all together with some full character designs. After drawing your first full characters, you’ll learn different poses to draw your character in.

The rest of the course covers some advanced drawing techniques, lighting styles, Photoshop skills, as well as deeper dives into character elements like hair, cloth, armor and more.

This is a very practical course! You’ll be drawing and sketching your own characters throughout the entire class! And by the end of class, you should have several characters drawn, and the skills to draw any character from your imagination!

Why take this course from us?

Being able to create characters from your imagination is a sought after skill that is required by most major media companies in some aspect of their creative process. Whether it is to create films, games, or comic books, there is always a spot for someone who can draft up new, innovative, and magical ideas to bring the project to life. Even in the 21st century where much of the world’s entertainment is in 3D, a skilled 2D illustrator is a vital asset in providing the initial designs that later become sculpted and rigged assets in 3D software.

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with theoretical and practical knowledge that will be immediately useful when trying to get better at character drawing. This course is targeted towards hobbyists as well as beginners who seek to be professionals. Each topic will be taught at a comfortable pace and reiterated multiple times throughout the course. Students who enroll in this course will learn to think like an artist and adapt to a workflow that will allow them to produce designs that can be used by a 3D modeler in the studio pipeline.

Who is your course instructor?

This course is led by Kevin Gardin, the founder of Drawcademy, in partnership with Video School, creators of several top-rated courses in the fields of art, design, photography and video creation. Kevin has been drawing his own characters for years, both professionally and as a hobbyist. He is excited to share his knowledge and passion with you.

Are you ready to start your own character design journey?

We’re so excited that you’re here reading this course description, and know that once you enroll you won’t regret it.

Click that enroll button and start drawing today!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Character Design Course

Lecture 1: Introduction | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: How To Get The Most Out Of This Course | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Your Roadmap to Excellence: Grab Your Valuable Course Workbook!

Lecture 4: Start Drawing: Instantly Draw a Better Human Frame! | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: Action Item: Post Your Sketch! | Character Design Course

Chapter 2: WARM-UP SKETCHING EXERCISES

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: Read This First: The Importance of Being Loose | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Warm Up Exercises | Character Design Course

Chapter 3: THE TOOLS OF THE ARTIST

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: Key Drawing Tools | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Top Paper Recommendation | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: Top Pencil Set Recommendation | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: Top Pen Recommendation | Character Design Course

Lecture 6: Scanning Your Artwork PT 1/2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 7: Scanning Your Artwork PT 2/2 | Character Design Course

Chapter 4: SILHOUETTES

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: Character Silhouettes PT 1/2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Character Silhouettes PT 2/2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: Elf Clothing Concept | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: Elf Sword Silhouettes | Character Design Course

Lecture 6: Architecture Silhouettes | Character Design Course

Lecture 7: Action Item: Post Your Silhouettes! | Character Design Course

Chapter 5: SHAPE LANGUAGE

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: Friendly vs. Mean Visual Identifiers | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Peanut Brothers Shape Language | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: Random Word Challenge Demo: Dragon PT 1/2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: Random Word Challenge Demo: Dragon PT 2/2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 6: DEMO: Good vs. Evil Cartoon Characters (Worksheet) | Character Design Course

Chapter 6: DRAWING THE HUMAN HEAD

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: Formula for Drawing the Head | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Master Study | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: Eyes | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: Mouth | Character Design Course

Lecture 6: Nose | Character Design Course

Lecture 7: Ears | Character Design Course

Lecture 8: DEMO: Putting It All Together | Character Design Course

Lecture 9: Drawing Features on Cartoon Faces (Worksheet) | Character Design Course

Chapter 7: THE HUMAN FIGURE

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: The Human Figure | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: The Arm Inner, Outer (Highlighted) | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: DEMO: The Arm | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: The Leg (Highlighted) | Character Design Course

Lecture 6: DEMO: The Hand (Palm and Profile) | Character Design Course

Lecture 7: DEMO: The Leg | Character Design Course

Chapter 8: DEMO: CREATING THE ORC (DIGITAL MEDIA)

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: Rough Stage: Silhouette: Orc Front View | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Rough Stage: Gesture Drawing: Orc Front View | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: Refined Stage: Linework: Orc Front View | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: Refined: Linework: Orc Back View | Character Design Course

Lecture 6: Rough and Refined: Gesture and Linework: Orc Side View | Character Design Course

Lecture 7: Comparing All Views | Character Design Course

Chapter 9: DEMO: CREATING THE ELF SWORDSWOMAN (TRADITIONAL MEDIA)

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: Rough Stage: Elf Silhouettes PT 1/2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Rough Stage: Elf Silhouettes PT 2/2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: Rough Stage: Gesture: Elf Front View | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: Refined Stage: Linework: Elf Front View PT 1/2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 6: Refined Stage: Linework: Elf Front View PT 2/2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 7: Refined Stage: Shading: Elf Front View | Character Design Course

Lecture 8: Rough Stage: Elf Back View (Gesture/Ghost Drawing) | Character Design Course

Lecture 9: Refined Stage: Elf Back View (Linework) | Character Design Course

Lecture 10: Rough Stage: Elf Side View (Gesture/ Ghost Drawing) | Character Design Course

Lecture 11: Refined Stage: Elf Side View (Linework) | Character Design Course

Lecture 12: Elf Character Worksheet | Character Design Course

Chapter 10: DRAWING COOL POSES!

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: 2 Gesture Drawing Stickman Methods: Circles and Cubes | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Reverse-Engineering Stickmonsters (Kreiger, Battledon, and Salazinj)

Lecture 4: Human Stickmen DEMO 1 | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: Human Stickmen DEMO 2 | Character Design Course

Lecture 6: STICKYBONES: 30 Sec Gesture Drawing Poses | Character Design Course

Lecture 7: STICKYBONES: 1 Min Gesture Drawing Poses | Character Design Course

Lecture 8: Action Item: Post Your Stickmen! | Character Design Course

Chapter 11: DRAWING FUNDAMENTALS

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: The Goals of the 2D Artist | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: The 5 Visual Elements of Art | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: EXERCISE: Ink Monsters Worksheet (LINE & SHAPE) | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: EXERCISE: Ink Monsters Worksheet (FORM) | Character Design Course

Chapter 12: ADVANCED DRAWING TECHNIQUES

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: Tangents | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Line Weights | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: Color Temperature | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: Color Theory | Character Design Course

Chapter 13: REALISTIC CHARACTER LIGHTING ft. STICKYBONES

Lecture 1: Intro | Character Design Course

Lecture 2: Story & Character Focus | Character Design Course

Lecture 3: Lighting The Face | Character Design Course

Lecture 4: HERO POSE – Composition, Perspective & Design | Character Design Course

Lecture 5: HERO POSE – Lighting | Character Design Course

Instructors

Video School
Learn Creative Skills

Phil Ebiner
Top-Rated Udemy Instructor, 3 Million+ Students

Kevin Gardin
200,000+ Students Worldwide

Mitchell Bouchard
B.S, Host @RedCapeLearning 540,000 + Students

Red Cape Learning
Online Education for Video, Photo, Design & Investing!

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 2 votes

2 stars: 1 votes

3 stars: 12 votes

4 stars: 38 votes

5 stars: 98 votes

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