How to Design Comic Book Characters Course

In this course, I'll teach you my professional workflow for designing characters for your own comics, worlds and stories.

You'll learn foundational theories for art making; tips for how to create more appealing characters, and workflow techniques* I use in my professional work as an artist in the AAA video game industry.

What you'll learn:

• Theories for design, shape language and color

• Tips for anatomy and story

• Techniques for efficient, workflows and exercises to boost your skills

What's included:

• 16+ videos with commentary (See videos slide)

• Lesson specific assignments to practice as you learn

• Final .CSP file, full-res image, and theory sheets

Be prepared with the following:

• An idea for a character. Now's your chance to bring your own creation to life in a guided, step-by-step process

• A baseline level of digital drawing is assumed at the door. Things like perspective, anatomy, and familiarity with your software of choice. Although I will offer tips for some of these, this is not strictly a beginner artist level course. However, if you are a beginner, there is plenty to learn and I encourage beginners regardless, since this is really about a methodology for bringing your creation to life

• Creativity. Art should be fun. Worldbuilding and telling stories is why we do what we do. Be a curious, exploratory artist who never tires of the "What if?"s

• Stylus and tablet of choice

• Painting software of choice*

*Disclaimer: I'll be using Clip Studio Paint for this class, however, most of the techniques shown are software agnostic.