This course will be basically divided into two parts, the first and most important part of the course will be all about how to draw and design cartoon characters. And the second part will deal with the rendering of those characters, that is, how to finish them on a digital illustration software, by adding final line, color, and light and shadow.

First, we’ll start learning how to draw the characters with the head unit. This unit is will laser focus on how to draw the head. I believe the head is complex enough that warrant its own unit, plus is a fairly self-contained part of the body, if you master it, you have half of the design in the bag!. Anyway, this unit will start with the shape of the head, and the techniques you can use to help you design attractive heads super fast without the need for detail. From there we’ll move on to the actual head features, I’ll show you a large quantity of the most commonly used eyes, noses, mouths and more. I’ve left you a downloadable PDF file with all the features for you to use as reference. By the end of this unit, if you make all the exercises, you should be able to come up knowing how to make full appealing cartoon heads.

The next unit is about the rest of the body. We’ll start introducing the concept of the mannequin. A really helpful tool to draw and design cartoon bodies from imagination. In this lesson you’ll all learn a bit of the super simplified human anatomy, or at least, the basic shapes of the body. My idea is that if you learn those super simplified shapes, you can design those more anatomically inspired cartoons (think of the characters from Avatar, or any other show inspired by Anime with semi-realistic bodies) rather than being limited by your knowledge to only create those super abstract type of cartoons. There’s also a PDF for the diagram of the body. The unit finishes up by putting those mannequins in motion and dressing them up. By the end of this unit, you should be able to draw and design any type of cartoon character with any type of body in movement.