Character Design Course: Practical Steps To Design Your First Character!

Greetings fellow humans! Welcome to ‘Character Design Course- Practical steps to design your first character!’ This course is a collection of illustration classes meant for beginner and intermediate illustrators interested in character design. I’m going to share with you guys 6 practical steps for designing a character from start to finish.

What you’ll learn:

• Coming up with your character idea and story- I’ll talk about coming up with a brief summary of who your character is before we start drawing them.
• Finding inspiration- We will look for images (Art from other artists and real life photos) that will help us in our rough sketching and exploration process.
• Exploration and rough sketches- In this stage, we will do very quick and loose roughs of what our character looks like based on the previous steps.
• Refining your character- Once we’ve done our rough sketches, we will choose the design we like the most and start finalizing it. Here we will make minor adjustments to the design if necessary and come up with a color palette
• Pose and expression tests- Once we have our final design, we will create pose and expressions that will put our design to the test. This will help identify any issues with our designs.
• Character turnarounds- Here I will share some tips on how to keep everything consistent when drawing a 360 degree view of your character. Character turnarounds are very useful for animators and riggers in the animation production pipeline.

At the end of this class, you’ll not only have all the required tools to bring your awesome characters and stories to life but also have complete and fully colored character drawings to add your portfolio. I can’t wait to see the designs that you come up with!