A quick tour of Photoshop showing the parts relevant to areas I cover in this course.

Figure drawing. Its super important! So practice this one lots.

More tips on how to draw the human form

A quick run down on copying shading

How to break the hand down into pieces to draw more easily

Lets look at the feet and some easy guides for drawing them

Time to speed up your drawing skills. Gestural drawings are good for really capturing the 'character' of a pose

We'll collect references to draw from. The more we draw the more shapes we map to our brains for drawing problem solving

An example of one of my characters broken down into where the references may have been from

Lets explore with some interesting 2D shapes to see what characters we can find

More awesome 2d shape character exploration exercises to try out

Using the same idea from the 2d shapes exercises, lets try our hand with exploring with 3d shapes

More on humanoid figures. Body shapes give a lot of character, so how you use shape and volume is important for the type of character people read at a glance

A very quick demo of trying to create a character to match a very simple brief

Lets take the human figure form and screw with the sizings of various parts to make interesting robots and alien type characters

A quick break down of how to create a new mech. We really rely on our sample libraries here. The second half of this video I show a previously designed mech and show where all of its influences may lie

Monsters, taken from what we've learned and what we can reference from nature. We'll find some horrible and cool creatures in this lecture

Lets get our sketch ready, with final changes or suggestions, so we can take the design further

We take our selected sketch and decide which lines and shapes are important and which ones to throw to the wind

Time to play with colour! I go over some basic colour theory and then give a simple rule to follow by if in doubt

Lets add some shading and lighting with Photoshop/Krita layer blend modes to see quickly how our character looks in some sort of lighting

Its been fun. Here's the final word