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Draw Characters In Your Original Style
Master the compositions of Character Design with
Professional Artist, Angie Nasca
What is your favorite character? Do you enjoy animated shows or stories with a lovable cast? Do you ever wonder what your favorite characters would look like if YOU had designed them?
In this course, I teach you how to build and develop your original character drawing style. We will find references and inspiration together and turn them into original characters based on understanding the meanings and personalities of shapes. Whether you're interested in drawing fan art or learning the basics of character design for your own stories and creations, this course will teach you everything you need to know to advance your skills!
I'll teach you everything you need to know, from the basic techniques and tools of digital art to how to add personality to your characters through expressions and poses! As a character designer, using my imagination and personal style to design, and redesign characters is something I love to do and has helped me in my own art journey, so I'm excited to be able to share my knowledge with others who have that same passion!
This course is for anyone interested in developing their character design skills by honing their personal and unique style. If you have a love for characters in animated shows, movies (even video games and books!), and would love to understand the designs and thoughts behind your beloved character's designs and recreate them in your original way.
By the end of this course, you'll have a greater understanding of character design basics, using references and Procreate, and developing an art style that is unique to you. You'll design using simplified shapes and powerful silhouettes and use that knowledge to reimagine and push the design of diverse characters based on their personality traits and body structures.
Step 1: Overview of Procreate
Step 2: How to create an original style using references
Step 3: How to use depict personality in designs using exaggerated shapes, expressions and poses
Step 4: How to draw an already existing character in your original style
Welcome
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Meet Your Instructor: Angie Nasca
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Introduction to the course
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Introduction to Procreate
Chapter 1: Overview of Procreate
- Exploring Procreate’s basic tools
- How to use layers
- Rundown of tools and adjustment tabs
- Tips and Tricks: Procreate shortcuts
Chapter 2: How to Develop Your Original style
- Gathering and analyzing references and properly crediting them.
- From developing to maintaining, and evolving your style
Chapter 3. Using shapes in your design
- Reviewing and analyzing different shapes in design
- Designing a face using shapes
- Using shapes to design different body types
Chapter 4. Adding personality to a design: exaggeration, stylization, and color
- Stylizing and exaggerating shapes in a design
- Learning how to draw believable expressions
- Applying poses and gestures to represent a character’s personality
- Choosing a color palette based on a character’s personality
Chapter 5. Recreating an already existing design in your own style
- Analyzing a character’s personality through their design
- Recreating a character’s design in your own style
- Recreating the Color palette and coloring your drawing
- Overall comparison to the original reference
Bonus Chapter: How to grow as an artist
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Managing social media
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What to expect when working in the industry
Outro
1. Congratulations on Completing the Course
About the Instructor
Introducing the Creator, Angie Nasca
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Hey everyone!
My name is Angie Nasca - I'm a Character Designer currently working full-time at ZAG Animation Studios designing my own characters for the Miraculous Ladybug franchise. I've been working in the animation industry in LA for about four years now, but I've been drawing my entire life and posting my artwork online for years! Drawing fan art has always been something I’ve done out of pure love and admiration for my favorite shows and characters, to a point where I was even able to snag my first industry job just off of my posted fan art!
Reimagining character designs in my own style has not only helped me dive into the animation industry, but it also helped me hone and evolve my own art style. My work is easily identified from the way I portray expressions and cleanly exaggerate poses and emotions, and I truly believe that my love for drawing fan art is what really helped me gain the confidence to push those elements in my own original designs too. I have received many requests throughout the years to teach how I draw and the process behind it, so I'm very excited to have the opportunity to be able to host my very first online course!
- People who are interested in character design
- People who want to learn the meanings behind the shapes and designs of characters
- People who want to develop their unique and personal character designing skill
- People who heart animated shows, movies, and video games
- People who would like to recreate their favorite characters
Duration of the course
You can access the class videos for 20 weeks. Within that period, you can replay the videos in as many devices as you want.
Installment Payment
Quadpay is available for the payment! Your order will be split into 4 installments paid over 6 weeks! To find out more, please visit Quadpay.
Class Preparation (iPad)
Also, you need an Apple Pencil to take the class. iPad Air, iPad, iPad Pro all works! Do not forget about downloading the 'Procreate' app as well.
Class access
We will send you an email with a webpage link and a personalized code to access the videos within 24 hours of purchase.
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