With mobile drawing
6 Class Projects
It takes about 1 to 3 hours to complete one class project.
A variety of features and a human body
Textured clothing and hair
Design your own creative characters
The four different appearances of the characters
Illustrations that look like they've captured an animation
Storytelling character sheet
Skills You’ll Learn
Did you even know you can draw on your phone? A lot of people are surprised when they hear this, but I want you to know that you can draw amazing drawings on your phone. Let's share how easy and fun drawing is, and the joyful feelings you can feel with all the powers of digital creation in the palm of your hand.
Create a Family of Characters
You have the power to bring characters to life! In this class, you will learn how to transform the people of your imagination, and even real life, into characters on paper. Your characters will have emotions and physical features, as if they were real! From concept design to the actual drawing process, I'll tell you all the steps to creating characters.
Worried about the technical aspects? Don’t be! It's never difficult! You can draw characters with really light lines like in my drawings. I will teach you how to draw and catch the key points so that you can freely express figures without complicated details or techniques. Also, I will point out the parts that are easy to mess up so you get a perfect sketch every time.
Drawing Clothes and Hair
Vintage food illustrations emphasized the texture and appearance of food by exaggerating the crunchiness of bread or the glistening of ice cubes. You will learn to capture the same feeling in your own drawings by the end of this course.
Adding Vivid Colors
There are two main ways to color a character. There is the basic method of drawing an outline and filling in colors, and the method of drawing smoothly with only colors without any lines. The feelings of the two methods are completely different, and they can be applied in a variety of ways. I will tell you how to choose colors and color neatly and cleanly.
Also, depending on how you use light and shadow, you can express the atmosphere of the picture in many different ways. Let's gradually learn how to use the contrast in the simplest and coolest way to match cartoon drawings.
Drawing the Scene
Give your characters a story. What if your character was a main character in an animation? Imagine the specific situations your character faces and draw scenes as if they are a still cut of a movie or animation! In fact, you can capture the character as if they were moving and alive. You can tell stories through your illustrations!
A Character Sheet? What’s That?
I’ll teach you to organize your characters into one sheet? A character sheet explains everything about a character's appearance, clothing, personality, and rough story. After finishing with a completed sheet, your character will be complete! Character sheets are also great as an addition to your portfolio.
Curriculum
WELCOME
Welcome to Kim Myway’s Digital Drawing Class
1. How can you create characters on your phone?
02:23
2. Meet Kimmyway: illustrator, artist, and your instructor
02:48
3. All you need is ibisPaint and a touch pen
02:38
4. Galaxy Note split screen view guideline
05:00
1
The Basics of ibisPaint
1. Setting up your canvas
10:32
2. How to use brushes and colors
10:45
3. Using layers and layering effects
04:46
4. Other useful tools I recommend
09:39
2
Character Drawing 101 - The Body
1. The structure of the face simplified
26:16
2. How to draw different facial expressions
19:04
3. How to make your character’s poses look graceful
20:24
4. How to bring your character to life with gestures
22:55
3
Character Drawing 101 - The Hair and Clothes
1. The secret to drawing natural looking hair
14:17
2. How to portray wrinkles on clothes
12:49
3. How to avoid awkwardness when drawing clothes
17:07
4
Coloring and Contrast
1. The techniques for sharp and clear coloring
14:45
2. How to get soft coloring like analog art
23:56
3. Various ways to add contrast and the effects of each
30:17
5
Drawing Your Own Characters
1. Ways you can find inspiration
03:34
2. Designing characters that get people’s sympathy
08:40
3. Creating a story to broaden the scope of your character
07:17
6
Drawing a Scene from an Animation
1. Setting up your workspace, then sketching
12:01
2. Coloring the character and background
14:26
3. Finishing details that will make your illustration animation-like
10:03
7
Creating Character Sheets
1. What are character sheets and what are they for?
09:10
2. Drawing your character in various poses and expressions
10:18
3. Trimming and finalizing your character sheet
06:26
OUTRO
Congratulations on Finishing the Class!
1. In closing: Keep creating your own characters!
02:04
Creator
kimmyway
Hello! I'm Kim Myway, an artist who likes to create various characters from my phone!
I like to tell stories through my own characters. The process of making characters more and more three-dimensional is also very enjoyable, and when I meet people who like my pictures and characters, I feel the greatest happiness!
The reason I started drawing on my phone is because I couldn’t afford more expensive devices like tablets. As it was my last resort, I didn't expect much from drawing on my phone.
But as I continued exploring and trying, I found my rhythm, and now I can draw great pictures without a tablet or iPad! And now I want to share with you what I've been working on with mobile drawing.
Through my class, you will learn how to draw pictures easily and happily on your smartphone, and create your own lifelike characters!
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