Character Design Art Camp (Ages 12-18)

This course teaches character design from the ground up: starting with fundamentals like anatomy, gesture, and shape design. Students will learn to create original characters from scratch. Bring your sketchbooks or drawing tablets, instruction will be provided for both digital and traditional media!

This camp will teach you:

• Designing unique characters using the principle of contrast and exageration
• Human and animal anatomy
• Consistency of characters
• Shading and perspective
• Working with color palettes

Detailed Schedule

DAY 1. Realistic Head Drawing

• The creative approach for drawing the head and face honest to realistic proportions
• Using a reference proper techniques for head drawing
• Steps for successful drawing
• Relying on simple shapes
• How to use a pencil
• How to draw individual parts of the head that work in harmony with one another.
• The relationship each part of the face has with the other

DAY 2. Stylized head drawing

• Use of simple shapes to project more complicated concepts.
• Stylized proportions and their relationship to realistic proportions

DAY 3. Realistic human anatomy (male and female)

• Proportions in traditional human drawing
• Introduction to basic male and female anatomy
• Creating bodies in motions
• Gesture drawing

DAY 4. Stylized human anatomy

• Use of simple shapes to create characters
• The limitations of stylized anatomy
• Playing with proportions to create new styles

DAY 5. Final project

• Creating your own character/ discovering your style