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Complete Character Design Course: Draw Your Dream Character

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Overview

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Design Your Dream Character!

Welcome to the Complete Character Design Course, where you'll be designing your dream character from nothing!

Do you want to know all the techniques and skills you need to create your own amazing characters?

Do you want to turn your character ideas into fully fleshed out characters with emotion and backstories?

Are you intimidated by everything there is to know about character design, like proportions, silhouette, and outfits?

Then this is the Class for you!

We'll be going through all the necessary steps to make your dream character come true.

We'll be:

  • writing and brainstorming your character traits and personality
  • using gesture drawing to create dynamic poses
  • creating a full 4 view turnaround for your character
  • and much more!

You'll understand the fundamentals of character design to create interesting characters that people will fall in love with. All of this done step by step, in an easy to follow process.

If you're tired of courses that tell you what to do but don't actually SHOW you the process, I'm here to tell you that this is NOT one of those courses!

In this course, we'll be going through both theory and practical activities.

In fact, if you follow this course from the beginning to the very end, you'll have your own amazing character completely drawn in several poses.

Not only that, but this course comes with several resources to help you on your character artist journey.

Including downloadable reference sheets to help you with anatomy and proportions, to amazing websites that help you find the perfect color palette and reference images for your character!

So, are you ready to start creating your own amazing characters?

Then I'll see you in the next video.

- Patricia

Syllabus

  • Intro
  • Welcome To The Class!
  • Get A Guaranteed Win Out Of This Class!
  • Bringing Your Character To Life
  • DEMO: Writing An Adventurer Character
  • Finding Reference Images For Better Character Designs!
  • DEMO: Finding References For Our Adventurer Character
  • Drawing Dynamic Characters With Gesture Drawing
  • DEMO: Warming Up With Gesture Drawing
  • DEMO: Gesture Drawing Of Our Adventurer Character
  • Making A Strong Silhouette For Your Character
  • DEMO: Refining The Silhouette Of Our Adventurer
  • Fixing The Proportions And Anatomy Of Your Character
  • DEMO: Drawing The Proportions Of Our Adventurer Character
  • Drawing The Outfit For Your Character!
  • DEMO: Drawing Jonah's Outfit (Our Character)
  • Choosing Colors And Painting Your Character
  • DEMO: Coloring Our Character, Jonah
  • Drawing A Turnaround Of Your Character!
  • DEMO: Drawing The Front View Of Our Character, Jonah
  • DEMO: Drawing The Easiest View, The Back!
  • DEMO: Drawing The Side View Of Jonah
  • DEMO: Drawing The 3/4 View, The Hardest One!
  • Conclusion And Jonah Has A Message For You!

Taught by

Patricia Caldeira

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