Draw Your Own Anime Characters: Portraits (Ages 8-12) (8 Weeks)
Ms. Joi
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In this 8-week self-paced course students create their own cartoon characters! Students draw, ink, and color portraits of their characters in 3 views. For novice cartoon, anime, manga artists.
Class experience
Beginner Level
In this 8-week self-paced course students will create portraits of their own cartoon characters! Students are introduced to basic drawing techniques in this course and will practice drawing the face in 3 views, gender bending, aging, inking, and coloring their characters. This course is for novice cartoon, anime, and manga artists. These are students that are completely new to drawing cartoon characters and character features. No prior knowledge is necessary to enroll in this course. This...
8 lessons//8 Weeks
Week 1Lesson 1Drawing Characters in Front ViewLearn how to draw characters in front view using basic shapes and steps. Follow along with the demo to learn the technique. Participate in practice sessions to get familiar with the technique. Complete and submit the homework assignment to receive feedback from the instructor.Week 2Lesson 2Drawing Characters in Side ViewLearn how to draw characters in side view using basic shapes and steps. Follow along with the demo to learn the technique. Participate in practice sessions to get familiar with the technique. Complete and submit the homework assignment to receive feedback from the instructor.Week 3Lesson 3Drawing Characters in 3/4 ViewLearn how to draw characters in 3/4 view using basic shapes and steps. Follow along with the demo to learn the technique. Participate in practice sessions to get familiar with the technique. Complete and submit the homework assignment to receive feedback from the instructor.Week 4Lesson 4Drawing Masculine & Feminine CharactersLearn how to draw masculine and feminine characters. Follow along with the demo to learn the technique. Participate in practice sessions to get familiar with the technique. Complete and submit the homework assignment to receive feedback from the instructor.Week 5Lesson 5Drawing Characters at Different AgesLearn how to draw young and old characters. Follow along with the demo to learn the technique. Participate in practice sessions to get familiar with the technique. Complete and submit the homework assignment to receive feedback from the instructor.Week 6Lesson 6Drawing Characters with Facial ExpressionsLearn how to draw moody characters. Follow along with the demo to learn the technique. Participate in practice sessions to get familiar with the technique. Complete and submit the homework assignment to receive feedback from the instructor.Week 7Lesson 7Outlining CharactersLearn how to outline characters. Follow along with the demo to learn the technique. Participate in practice sessions to get familiar with the technique. Complete and submit the homework assignment to receive feedback from the instructor.Week 8Lesson 8Coloring CharactersLearn how to color characters. Follow along with the demo to learn the technique. Participate in practice sessions to get familiar with the technique. Complete and submit the homework assignment to receive feedback from the instructor.
At the end of this course, students will be able to draw cartoon character portraits using basic shapes and steps, basic inking techniques, basic coloring techniques, and references.
Homework Offered
For each lesson, students complete and submit homework assignments to express their creativity by creating their own original characters and receive helpful feedback from the instructor.Assessments Offered
Grades Offered
No prior knowledge is necessary to enroll in this course.
Students are welcome to use the following apps, or any others they prefer, in class: SketchBook • Available for desktop and mobile devices • Price: (Desktop) $19.99 USD or (Mobile) Free • No online account, login, or sign in necessary • Website: https://www.sketchbook.com/apps Ibis Paint • Available for mobile devices. • Price: (Ibis Paint) $9.99 USD or (Ibis Paint X) Free • No online account, login, or sign in necessary • Website: https://ibispaint.com/product.jsp Procreate • Available for iPad and iPhone devices • Price: (iPad) $5.99 USD or (iPhone) $4.99 USD • No online account, login, or sign in necessary • Website: (iPad) https://procreate.art/ipad or (iPhone) https://procreate.art/pocket
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Students will use or have access to the following apps, websites, and resources in this course. Use and access of these apps, websites, and resources is voluntary. Parents are advised to review and approve these resources before enrolling their learner in the course. SKETCHBOOK: This app is available for desktop and mobile devices. This app is recommended only for students drawing digitally. However, students are not required to use this app and may use any other app they prefer in class. No account, login, or sign in is necessary to use the app. This app does connect to the company's web services as needed or requested. During such times data including personal identifying information, device information, and more may be collected to provide certain services (e.g. contacting support via the contact form, downloading brushes, saving app preferences, saving in-progress artwork, and more). Parents are asked to review the app's privacy policy and consent to the management and use of their child's data as pertains to the services provided. Learn more about Sketchbook's Privacy Policy and Children's Privacy Policy here: https://www.sketchbook.com/privacy IBIS PAINT: This app is available for mobile devices. This app is recommended only for students drawing digitally. However, students are not required to use this app and may use any other app they prefer in class. No account, login, or sign in is necessary to use the app. This app does connect to the company's web services as needed or requested. During such times data including personal identifying information, device information, and more may be collected to provide certain services (e.g. contacting support via the contact form, downloading brushes, saving app preferences, saving in-progress artwork, and more). Parents are asked to review the app's privacy policy and consent to the management and use of their child's data as pertains to the services provided. Learn more about ibis Paint's Privacy Policy and Consent to Handling Personal Information here: https://ibispaint.com/privacy.jsp?lang=en PROCREATE: This app is available for iPhone and iPad devices. This app is recommended only for students drawing digitally. However, students are not required to use this app and may use any other app they prefer in class. The app must be purchased to use. No account, login, or sign in is necessary to use the app. This app does not connect to the company's web services at any time. Learn more about Procreate's App Privacy Policy here: https://procreate.art/app/privacy-policy GOOGLE FORMS: Students are asked to use Google Forms at the end of the course to submit course evaluations. A link to the Google Form will be provided. Responding to course evaluations is voluntary. Responses given are seen only by the instructor and reviewed to improve this and/or future courses. Course evaluations do not collect personal identifying information from or about students, parents, and families. REFERENCES: To assist in the completion of course exercises and assignments, students are encouraged to find useful references for character features (e.g. eyes, noses, mouths, hairstyles, clothing, poses, etc.) as needed. Some G-rated references will be provided in class.
****** NOTE: Thanks for your patience! Classes are gradually being added and updated to the Self-Paced format. Portraits, my beginner course, is available for both teens and preteens. ****** Hi everyone! I’m Joi Overby. I graduated university...
Self-Paced Class
$20
weekly or $160 for all content8 pre-recorded lessons
8 weeks of teacher feedback
Choose your start date
1 year of access to the content
Ages: 8-12
