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The Ultimate Guide to Drawing Cartoon Characters

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If you have ever dreamt of becoming a character designer or an illustrator of children´s books or just to be able to draw cartoony characters for your kids, even teaching them how to do it, this is the right course for you.

It can be overwhelming when you don´t know how to start and where to start from. But I will show you one very simple technique which will open the doors to your creativity and will take away your fear of failure once and for all. Because this is the only thing that is stopping you from that unfulfilled dream of yours.

So, what will you learn here:

  1. How to loosen your hand and free your mind through the right technique so that you can draw anything you want.

  2. Understand the basics of what makes a character looks cartoony, cute or evil.

  3. Understand and experiment with many different designs for making a cartoony character. Find your own style.

  4. Give motion and emotion to your character.

  5. Learn how to apply facial expressions to exactly your particular character and design.

  6. Attach the right facial expression to a body posture to make the emotion stronger.

  7. How to keep the proportions of the character the same in different drawings.

  8. How to draw cartoony hands.

Syllabus

  • INTRO - See what you can get from this course
  • Lesson 1: Loosen your hand to start drawing
  • Lesson 2: How to draw perspective using a sphere
  • Lesson 2 (Extra): How to draw cubes in perspective to draw cartoony legs
  • Lesson 3: Different approaches to draw a cartoon elephant
  • Lesson 4: Draw advanced cartoon character in different poses - Part 1, Happy Elephant
  • Lesson 5: Draw poses of a cartoon elephant - Part 2 Sad Emotions
  • Lesson 6: Draw different cat designs - a cartoon cat with defined features
  • Lesson 7: Draw a stylized cat
  • Lesson 8: Draw cartoon cat with more human-like features
  • Lesson 9: Draw cartoon cat with evil look
  • Lesson 10: How to bring to life even a very simplistic character
  • Lesson 11: Draw an advanced cartoon bunny
  • Lesson 12: Prepare some general facial expressions
  • Lesson 13: Happy Bunny
  • Lesson 14: Sad, angry Bunny
  • Lesson 15: Cheeky Bunny
  • Lesson 16: Draw a Turnaround
  • Lesson 17: Draw your own hands
  • Lesson 18: How to Draw proportions when posing the character
  • Lesson 19: Draw a Fox using a digital tool
  • Draw your character with a background
  • How to add personality to your backgrounds
  • Refine, Polish and add more Details

Taught by

Maria Avramova

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