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Discover & Cultivate Your Original Characters!
Digital Character Illustration with
Artist, Silyue
WHAT IS THIS CLASS ABOUT?
For those of us who love to create stories, visualising these ideas is a dream. Ever wanted to design your own characters but don't know where to start? Worry not, we'll walk you through this step by step! From drawing fundamentals to exploring the concept in sketch, learning to turn these into painted visions will soon be second nature!
WHO IS THIS CLASS FOR?
For those of us who love to create stories, visualising these ideas is a dream. Ever wanted to design your own characters but don't know where to start? Worry not, we'll walk you through this step by step! From drawing fundamentals to exploring the concept in sketch, learning to turn these into painted visions will soon be second nature!
This course is for beginners and hobbyists who'd like to take their character design to the next level. Learn how to turn your aesthetics and passion for anime into tools for creative expression.
This course is for beginners and hobbyists who'd like to take their character design to the next level. Learn how to turn your aesthetics and passion for anime into tools for creative expression.
Step 1: Translate Drawing Skills to the Digital Medium
Step 2: Develop Your Style: Anatomy, Palette & Painting
Step 3: Master the Design Process
Step 4: Paint in an Anime-Inspired Style
Step 5: Breathe Life Into Your Characters
Step 6: Present Concepts Efficiently
Welcome
- Meet Your Instructor: Silyue
- Introduction to the Class
- Introduction to the Tools
Chapter 1: Basics of Digital Art and Drawing
- Interface and Tools
- Using Layers and Layer Modes
- Customising brushes
- Linework in Digital
Chapter 2: Reference and Inspiration
- Drawing from life: Nature and the Constructed
- Transforming found inspiration
- Creating a moodboard
Chapter 3: Conceptual Sketching
- Building with shapes
- Stylised anatomy and silhouettes
- Showing personality: expression, pose & props
- Balancing the form: Visual noise & Tonal values
Chapter 4: Colour
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Understanding Hue, Tone, & Saturation
- Palette making: Harmony, Contrast and Relative Hues
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Creating your Colour Bias
Chapter 5: Light and Shadow
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Elements of light and shadow
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Types of lighting
- Hue shifting: Warm & cool
Chapter 6: Rendering
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Preparing sketches for painting
- Painting to show form
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Depicting material: Hair & Eyes
- Depicting material: Cloth & Jewelry
Chapter 7: Create an Original Character
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Character conceptualization
- Personality sketching
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Selecting a palette
- Rendering character art
- Using layouts to best present the concept and design
Bonus Chapter: How I Find My Own Art Style
- My art journey
- Approach to art: Hobbyist vs. Freelancer
Outro
Congratulations on completing the class!
Meet Your Creator
Hello!
I'm Yuette, also known as Silyue/OneiricBlue. Having grown up with a childhood passion for drawing anime and fantasy characters, I currently work as a freelance concept artist and illustrator. I initially started out as a hobbyist posting original character art, but now with over 8 years of character design experience, I actively sell my designs online as "adoptables" and continue to create new concepts to cater for the interests of our art community. Over these years, I've been asked to offer my advice and opinions on various original concepts and designs, so I'm really honoured to finally be able to open a course which addresses the process and knowledge of character design from square one!
I'm Yuette, also known as Silyue/OneiricBlue. Having grown up with a childhood passion for drawing anime and fantasy characters, I currently work as a freelance concept artist and illustrator. I initially started out as a hobbyist posting original character art, but now with over 8 years of character design experience, I actively sell my designs online as "adoptables" and continue to create new concepts to cater for the interests of our art community. Over these years, I've been asked to offer my advice and opinions on various original concepts and designs, so I'm really honoured to finally be able to open a course which addresses the process and knowledge of character design from square one!
- People who want to expand their skills on digital character illustration
- People who want to learn practical skills on Photoshop
- People who want to be able to draw their favorite anime characters
- People who want to explore different illustrations styles
- People who want to learn realistic character design
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.
Earn points to Extend the Class Access
Receive points by completing chapter missions OR by taking the class two or more times a week. And use the points to extend your class access!
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
You will need to get Photoshop to take this class.
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. Please check your inbox or spam!
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