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Whether you’re new to Illustrator or an old hand who needs a refresher and a guide to the new features in CS6, this course from expert trainers Chad Chelius and Angie Taylor will teach you what you need to know. You’ll learn the fundamentals of Adobe’s vector-based drawing and illustration program and be introduced to the features that are new in the CS6 version. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn advanced techniques for working with shapes, transformations, perspective, color, typography, and more. This Learn by Video course is presented in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press.

Quick, name a character! Memorable characters are part of our culture–from the Simpsons to Mickey Mouse, creating a unique and likeable personality is a powerful way to make your work memorable. But creating good characters isn’t easy! In this information-packed 13 lesson course, Ian Yates walks you through the basics of designing a memorable character illustration and the important steps of a character project.

Master the human figure lessons will bring your figure drawing skills to the next level--guaranteed. I absolutely guarantee it. Just follow along the lessons and do the exercises and you will significantly draw the human body better.

Volume 1. Make a step by step as world renowned master of digital art by Brian Haberlin (Brian Haberlin), reveals the tricks and tips that are used for digital painting masters. Also in the folder is the brush and the working material (sketches) to learn the lesson along.

Here's the full collection of lessons from PencilKings. You can find more info about each of them here:

This is one of most essential and most requested from audiences. Painting metal seems complex, but it is really simple once you know the principle. In this tutorial, you will learn to paint metal armor and design in detail. Value or light and shadow are the very key to make your metal painting looks real. Metal is one of the most important element in character design, you can't design a character without its unique armor design.

LEVEL: Basic to Intermediate *Recommended that you have watched Face Constructed I and one of our character design tutorial to be able to understand lines and values first!

David Levy introduces the brushes, how to create special kistey.Pokazyvaet how to develop their own libraries of brushes in order to increase the speed risovaniya.Nachinaya to simple examples such as mountains, forests and clouds, David tends to create art with the environment, structures and characters. Teaches enrich the picture elements without losing the dynamism and integrity of the composition of the initial sketch.DVD includes a set of brushes, created in the lecture as well as mnogocloynye files PSD.

Working in the game industry under tight deadlines forced me to come up with a dependable photoshop workflow. This is my attempt to organize these findings into clear, concise videos to share with the community.
The Internet is full of tutorials. What makes these different? Here you’ll find a more ‘foundational’ resource. The videos will focus on basic principles and techniques that can be applied to your artwork. I believe strongly in explaining the ‘why’, not just the ‘how’.

In this Photoshop tutorial, we will further develop our stylized female character concept by drawing some of her expressions. We’ll get started by taking a look at each of the features on a face and learning about how they can be drawn to communicate a variety of different expressions. Next we will start slow and remove the problems of perspective from the equation by learning how to draw our expressions on a profile of our character. From here, we’ll move on and learn how to draw the same expressions on a 3/4 view of the character. Lastly, we will spend some time learning how a character’s body language can be used in conjunction with their facial expression to really help communicate their emotions. After completing this course, you’ll have a good idea how to further develop your characters by exploring how their expressions might change depending on the situation.

If you’ve wanted to learn how to draw a nose you’ve come to the right place! Pencil Kings instructor Sycra Yasin will guide you through everything that you need to know in order to draw noses of all different styles with ease. This series is suited perfectly for new artists, as well as those who just want to brush up on their face drawing skills

Are you looking for a simple to follow system for face drawing proportions that will give you naturally balanced faces every time you draw a head? Pencil Kings instructor Sycra Yasin is going to guide you through our very easy to understand way to approach facial drawing proportions. Even if you are a complete beginner you’ll begin to understand just how easy it is to draw great looking faces in just a few minutes

In this series about how to draw an eye, instructor Sycra Yasin will guide you through the entire process of going from a complete beginner through to someone who can draw any kind of eye, for both male and female characters, in any style that you can imagine

Have you ever drawn a mouth that comes out looking really flat and you’re not sure what you need to do to give it a more natural feeling?

In this lesson series on how to draw an ear, you’re going to learn a very easy to understand method for drawing the ear. This means you won’t be wasting any time by studying too much theory. Right from the first minute you can get your pencil and follow along.

Have you been struggling to create characters that are full of life? Learning how to draw expressions is likely one of the key pieces to the puzzle that you’ve been missing and the good news is that we’ll show you how easy it is to make a few simple modifications to create and endless amount of new expressions.

Imagine a beautiful castle with enormous spires, an underground super villain’s lair, or dark and grimy factory filled with ludicrous machinery. How do you take an idea for an environment and turn it into a drawing? This workshop will give the beginning designer the foundation needed to design environments and backgrounds. Additionally, this workshop will be an introduction to background design techniques that will take you from the basics of perspective, sketching, composition to more advanced techniques using software such as Google Sketchup and Photoshop.

Eric’s workshop will take you step by step through the creation of amazing yet believable creatures and characters.

This workshop will focus on the Feature Film storyboarding process, and various storytelling philosophies. Louie will outline concepts about the script analysis and planning process, while also sharing insight into aspects of feature animation film making, and why it differs from TV story boarding.

This workshop is an introduction to animal drawing covering topics such as rhythm, design, form, gesture, proportion and basic anatomy. Joe's workshop will teach participants the fundamentals of animal anatomy. The content within this survey will also serve as a starting point for drawing the live model, drawing from imagination, and offer a basic approach that can be built upon with more advanced studies. With emphasis placed on proper distribution of mass via line weighting and placement, along with instruction on how to create dynamic poses and composition, Joe's workshop will give the beginning artist the foundation they need to create not only great art, but functional organic design as well..