Character Drawing

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HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN CHARACTERS

The "Character" course will teach you all the essential elements needed to successfully create your own character illustrations and understand how to bring them to life realistically.

Learn how to intricately draw facial features as well as the body's trunk volumes and limbs through a detailed, progressive video course.

Also practice asymmetric drawing to further strengthen your characters' identities, making them charismatic, endearing, and unique. Complement your skills by working on the skeleton's shape, posture, and posing, and you will have all the concepts needed to succeed in your character drawings.

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Course benefits

Available teachers

Teachers available for you to contact

Available exercises

Exercises available for you to practice and improve

Complete training

A comprehensive step-by-step course

CHARACTER DRAWING TUTORIALS

See our blog for further character drawing tutorials to help you perfect your knowledge and skills.

Free and regular posts on all kinds of topics related to illustrations and character drawings to practice step by step through detailed articles.

What the course offers

You will be supported throughout the " Character Drawing " course with the following lessons

  • What to Expect During This Course! free
  • What Equipment to Start With?
  • Drawing is an Art Form
  • The Quest for the Perfect Line
  • The Keys to Practicing and Improving
  • Movement is Life
  • Simplify Shapes Without Worrying About the Details
  • Simple Shapes: Exercise Correction
  • Once Upon a Time, the Graph Node
  • ExaaaAAAAGEeeerer (exaggerate)
  • Exploring the Proportions of the Human Body free
  • The Framework of the Body: Our Skeleton
  • The Skeleton: Exercise Correction
  • The Role of a Joint
  • Soft or Hard Body, Muscles Make Us Move
  • Simple Volumes of the Human Body
  • Simple Volumes of the Body: Exercise Correction
  • Do We Really Have a "Spine"?
  • Recap 1: Taking Stock
  • How to Draw a Face?
  • See and Observe to Draw Eyes
  • Right in the middle of the face, let's draw the nose
  • Let's Move to the Mouth!
  • And Finally, the Ears
  • Summary 2: the adventure continues
  • Summary 2: Exercise Correction
  • The Art of Caricature: Playing with Shapes
  • The Caricature: Exercise Correction
  • They Help You Draw, They Are to Be Drawn: Hands
  • At the very end of the legs, there are the feet!
  • Pro Technique: The Magic Bean
  • Pro Technique: Squash and Stretch
  • Squash and Stretch: Exercise Correction
  • Vary the proportions to express personality free
  • Pump it up, we're drawing the torso
  • Unfold Them, Let's Draw the Arms
  • Take them around your neck, we draw the legs
  • The Body in Detail: Review of the Last 3 Classes
  • Creating a Character is Also About Writing It
  • Pro Technique: The Key Pose
  • Summary 3: A-Z Demonstration, Let's Create a Knight!
  • Let's Brighten Up Our Knight with Color
  • Professional Technique: Turnaround
  • It's Time to Conclude and Get Started!

VISUALIZE YOUR PROGRESS

Keeping motivated when starting a personal project is very important, which is why we have set up a progress report accessible at any time. With it, you will be able to keep an eye on your investment and your advancement in the course you are taking.

Regular practice is a key factor during a learning phase, and your dashboard will allow you to closely monitor your progress and quantify the remaining work to organize your drawing sessions.

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