Character Design for Beginners

Character Design for Beginners, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 106 lectures, based on 629 reviews, and has 13511 subscribers.

You will learn about Generate ideas for Characters Quickly create thumbnails Learn methods to refine designs Create Turnarounds for presentation Learn to design Scifi Armor Learn to design Fantasy Armor Learn to draw wrinkles and folds in clothing Have a consistent workflow that will produce results in character design This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for any artist who wants to learn Character concept design or This course is also for any Graphic designer who wants to learn to create characters or This course is for anyone who is coming back to art after time away and wants to make characters or Any artist who wants to make their own game characters or Anyone with the desire to create their own comic book or graphic novel or manga characters or This is NOT for any artist or person looking for a quick tutorial. This is a concise course. or This is NOT for anyone that does not like to draw. You will be drawing a lot in this course. or This NOT an Anatomy course It is particularly useful for This course is for any artist who wants to learn Character concept design or This course is also for any Graphic designer who wants to learn to create characters or This course is for anyone who is coming back to art after time away and wants to make characters or Any artist who wants to make their own game characters or Anyone with the desire to create their own comic book or graphic novel or manga characters or This is NOT for any artist or person looking for a quick tutorial. This is a concise course. or This is NOT for anyone that does not like to draw. You will be drawing a lot in this course. or This NOT an Anatomy course.

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Summary

Title: Character Design for Beginners

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 106

Number of Published Lectures: 105

Number of Curriculum Items: 106

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 105

Original Price: $129.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Generate ideas for Characters

Quickly create thumbnails

Learn methods to refine designs

Create Turnarounds for presentation

Learn to design Scifi Armor

Learn to design Fantasy Armor

Learn to draw wrinkles and folds in clothing

Have a consistent workflow that will produce results in character design

Who Should Attend

This course is for any artist who wants to learn Character concept design

This course is also for any Graphic designer who wants to learn to create characters

This course is for anyone who is coming back to art after time away and wants to make characters

Any artist who wants to make their own game characters

Anyone with the desire to create their own comic book or graphic novel or manga characters

This is NOT for any artist or person looking for a quick tutorial. This is a concise course.

This is NOT for anyone that does not like to draw. You will be drawing a lot in this course.

This NOT an Anatomy course

Target Audiences

This course is for any artist who wants to learn Character concept design

This course is also for any Graphic designer who wants to learn to create characters

This course is for anyone who is coming back to art after time away and wants to make characters

Any artist who wants to make their own game characters

Anyone with the desire to create their own comic book or graphic novel or manga characters

This is NOT for any artist or person looking for a quick tutorial. This is a concise course.

This is NOT for anyone that does not like to draw. You will be drawing a lot in this course.

This NOT an Anatomy course

UPDATES: October 2018 :?New section on basic figure drawing and more videos uploaded weekly.

If you have even wanted to create cool characters, evil villains then look no further.

If you have ever stared at a blank page wondering what to draw then this is the course for you.

This is the course for those of you that want to learn concept character design. This is not another “watch me draw” tutorial that does not help you ?learn the process of character concept design. If you want to make games or comics or manga then you will need to learn how to design characters.

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This is the course that you need if you want to learn to create characters for video games and comics and animation. This is not an illustration course although you will be drawing a lot.

If you are ready to learn a process and workflow for designing ?characters, then you can’t afford to pass up this course.

When you are finished with this course you will not only have a solid workflow and new skills , you will have the confidence to get things done.

Rather than trying to sell you, just take a look at what the course has to offer. I’m sure you will see the time and care that was taken to create this course for you.?

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to Character concept Design

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Getting the Most out of this Course

Chapter 2: Before you Draw

Lecture 1: What Are You Designing for?

Lecture 2: Brainstorming using a mindmap

Lecture 3: refining the ideas

Lecture 4: Using the Character Sheet.

Lecture 5: Turnaround

Lecture 6: Color Thoery/Meaning and Character

Lecture 7: Assignment 1

Chapter 3: Using and Understanding Basic Shapes in Design

Lecture 1: The Circle

Lecture 2: The Square

Lecture 3: The Triangle

Lecture 4: Abstract Shapes

Lecture 5: Assignment 2

Chapter 4: Archetypes

Lecture 1: Protagonist Male

Lecture 2: Protagonist Female

Lecture 3: Antagonist Male

Lecture 4: Antagonist Female

Lecture 5: Mentor

Lecture 6: Sidekick

Lecture 7: Henchmen

Lecture 8: Assignment 3

Chapter 5: Thumbnailing

Lecture 1: What is Thumbnailing

Lecture 2: Styles to Use

Lecture 3: Using Lines to thumbnail

Lecture 4: Starting with a Silhouette

Lecture 5: Painterly approach

Lecture 6: Symmetry Tool for Thumbnailing

Lecture 7: Assignment 4

Chapter 6: How to Use Reference

Lecture 1: How to Gather reference

Lecture 2: Where to keep and organize your reference.

Lecture 3: Understanding vs. Copying

Lecture 4: Assignment 5

Chapter 7: Refining Your Thumbnails

Lecture 1: Intro to Refining your Thumbnails

Lecture 2: Refining Silhouette Thumbnails part One

Lecture 3: Refining Silhouette Thumbnails part Two

Lecture 4: Refining Silhouette Thumbnails part Three

Lecture 5: Refining Linear Thumbnails

Lecture 6: Assignment 6

Chapter 8: Turnarounds

Lecture 1: Introduction to Turnarounds

Lecture 2: Traditional Turnaround 1

Lecture 3: Traditional Turnaround 2

Lecture 4: Digital Turnaround Sketch

Lecture 5: Digital Turnaround Inks

Lecture 6: Digital Turnaround Color

Lecture 7: Digital Turnaround 3D model

Lecture 8: Assignment 7

Chapter 9: Background players NPC's

Lecture 1: Start with what you have

Lecture 2: Look at time Periods

Lecture 3: Give them Jobs

Chapter 10: How to Draw Wrinkles and Folds

Lecture 1: Drawing Wrinkles Intro

Lecture 2: Simple Fold

Lecture 3: Drop Fold

Lecture 4: "Diaper" fold

Lecture 5: Spiral Fold

Lecture 6: Zig Zag Fold

Chapter 11: How to Design a Superhero Costume

Lecture 1: Costume

Lecture 2: Color Scheme

Lecture 3: Style : Flyer

Lecture 4: Style : Shadow

Lecture 5: Style : Tech

Lecture 6: Style : Sentai

Chapter 12: How to Draw Fantasy Armor

Lecture 1: Introduction to Armor

Lecture 2: Fantasy Armor Overview

Lecture 3: Fantasy Armor : Helmet

Lecture 4: Fantasy Armor : Collar

Lecture 5: Fantasy Armor : Shoulder

Lecture 6: Fantasy Armor : Torso

Lecture 7: Fantasy Armor : Arm

Lecture 8: Fantasy Armor : Belt and Side Armor

Lecture 9: Fantasy Armor : Leg

Lecture 10: Fantasy Armor : Boots

Chapter 13: How to Draw Scifi Armor

Lecture 1: Scifi Armor Overview

Lecture 2: Scif Armor : Helmet

Lecture 3: Scifi Armor: Torso

Lecture 4: Scifi Armor : Shoulder

Lecture 5: Scifi Armor : Arm

Lecture 6: Scifi Armor : Pelvis

Lecture 7: Scifi Armor : Leg

Lecture 8: Scifi Armor : Boots

Chapter 14: Armor Examples

Lecture 1: Female Fantasy Knight Example

Lecture 2: Female Fantasy Light Armor/ Cloth Example

Lecture 3: Scifi Soldier Example

Lecture 4: Arm Armor Example

Lecture 5: Boot Design example

Lecture 6: Female Leg Armor Example 1

Instructors

Rich Graysonn
Illustrator Designer

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1 stars: 3 votes

2 stars: 10 votes

3 stars: 47 votes

4 stars: 195 votes

5 stars: 374 votes

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