Learn to draw stylized animal characters in your style with easy and accessible exercises. Drawing fearlessly on the blank paper like kids do inspired me to come up with these exercises to create any number of animal characters. Playing with different mediums like watercolours, pencils, crayons, or markers will help to let your creative juices flow.
For me, stylization means simplifying things from an artist’s point of view to the extent that it maintains its legibility, representing or designing according to the artist’s style; it’s about what we can draw away from reality or nature with the required information.
We will start with everyday household items and transform them into stylized works of art, then explain shape language, shape variation, size variation, line work, and more, further about creating different animal shapes. I will tell you about the various stylized facial features and body parts.
Then, move to the colour blob exercise, where you will learn to experiment with different shapes and features and turn stains into creatures.
Then, in the last activity, about collage making, you will learn the ultimate method of creating unique animal characters.
All these exercises are methods to get creative and can be applied anywhere in your art, and will also help you to develop your style.
Watch my first class, which is about drawing animal heads.
This class is for everyone who wants to develop a skill in character design, so it is for beginners, hobbyists, and those who wish to pursue a career as a children’s book illustrator.
After taking this course, you can improve overall art skills, ultimately leading to potential career opportunities.
The essential requirement for this course is only a pencil and a piece of paper, although I have used an iPad with Procreate.
Your project for this class is to complete all the exercises with the resources provided. Please take inspiration from this class, get creative and complete the project in your style. Very glad you are here. So let’s get started.
