
Learn step by step how to draw monster heads and faces with pencil drawing techniques, from thumbnail concepts to finished portraits, with beginner-friendly guidance on rendering and crosshatching.
Explore head anatomy and proportional thirds, then adapt to monster heads using coffin shapes for animal snouts, adding horns, multiple eyes, and humanoid traits.
Demonstrate crosshatching to reveal form and shade, using light direction, tight lines, and netting on circles and spheres to show shadows and wrinkles.
Learn to enhance monster portraits by adding eye bags and eye folds, developing organic skin folds, and varying tooth sizes for believability.
Design a wolf-like monster head using portrait compositions, sketch a dramatic eye, teeth, and gums, and apply crosshatching and varied line weight to render form under a top-light source.
Explore how to design and render monster heads by building large proportional shapes, switching between pencil and ink, and using crosshatching, shadows, and defined teeth, gums, and tusks.
Apply the lesson to retain it in long-term memory and post your monster head sketches or thumbnails. The instructor will reply to every submission, guiding your long art journey.
Have you always wanted to design your own Monster? In this drawing course, you are going to learn how to Draw your own Monster Portrait. This is for every level. If you are a beginner, you will be able to do this. I understand the struggle to draw monster type characters from your mind. Its actually much easier than you may think. By the end of the course, you will be drawing monster heads completely from your mind. There is no better feeling than being able to draw your thoughts.
Another year has gone by, and you haven't learned to draw, change that now. Its understandably hard to learn to draw by yourself through trial and error. I talk the trial and error out of it. learn from my mistakes. I've made very mistake in drawing, so you don't need to. This course is broken up in small chunks of learning, to make the process completely easy.
You will Learn:
- Concept / Idea Sketches
This is the phase where we generate several random ideas. This phase is incredibly fun. You start dipping into your creative mind and pull out some ideas you've been thinking of.
-3 Details you NEED
You will learn the three incredibly important tips that will make this entire process easy. These details are incredibly important and took me years to learn. You will learn them here and something that will transform your drawings.
- Cross-Hatching
You will get a crash course on the cross-hatching technique I use to bring creations to life. This cross hatching gives the organic life that most of these creatures from beginner level to professional level. I walk you through this process so you can do it to any drawing you want in the future. This will transform your sketchbook.
- Deonstration1
You'll understand the entire process from beginning to end by seeing it occur. We take what we have learned and bring it all together. I talk you through the whole drawing process.
-Demonstration 2
Adding on another demonstration to really solidify the techniques and methods in this system. This will further help you absorb all the knowledge up until this point to make your drawing even better.
- Wrap Up
Any level can get something from this course. I talk my way through exactly how I do my own personal creature design concept art. I have entire sketchbooks full of different creature designs. Monsters were such an addiction for the last 15 years of drawing. I got so many requests to make a course and this is it.
Creature design and monster design is something most people do wrong, this will teach you to avoid all the common mistakes. You will love this drawing course and can reference it any time you need in the future.
This is my favorite topic and I hope you enjoy it. Here is what's in the course. Let's go over what's inside.
You can be drawing your own monster designs by the end of the hour.
So let's get started!