Ultimate Beginners Cartooning Course : Basic Characters

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome : Overview and "Housekeeping"

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: Art as Problem Solving

Lecture 4: The Only 4 Things you NEED for this Course

Chapter 2: Part 1 : Basic Cartooning

Lecture 1: Part 1: The Basics

Lecture 2: The Plan : Drawing Easy and Fun Characters

Lecture 3: Lets make Circles

Lecture 4: Lets draw curves

Lecture 5: Left and right

Lecture 6: Up and Down

Lecture 7: Leveled Up !!!

Lecture 8: Road map of the face.

Lecture 9: Simple Nose

Lecture 10: Very Simple Mouth

Lecture 11: Simple Ears

Lecture 12: Eyebrows and More

Lecture 13: Great Books on Cartooning !

Chapter 3: Easy Facial Features

Lecture 1: Simple Head Shapes

Lecture 2: Introduction to drawing eyes

Lecture 3: Let's draw Eyes looking

Lecture 4: Bonus Eye Lesson

Lecture 5: Drawing the Eyebrows

Lecture 6: Drawing the Nose

Lecture 7: Drawing the Mouth

Lecture 8: Drawing the Ears

Lecture 9: BONUS : Practice Sheets

Chapter 4: Simple Cartoon Body

Lecture 1: Your First Cartoon Body

Lecture 2: Cartoon Body Exercise

Lecture 3: Cartoon Body Variations

Lecture 4: 5 Simple Shapes

Lecture 5: Drawing Cartoon Legs

Lecture 6: Drawing Cartoon Arms

Lecture 7: Bending arms and Legs

Chapter 5: Level up with Simple Shapes

Lecture 1: How to View this Section

Lecture 2: Cylinder Intro

Lecture 3: Cylinder Exercises

Lecture 4: Boxes Intro

Lecture 5: Boxes Exercises

Lecture 6: Spheres

Lecture 7: Overlapping Shapes

Lecture 8: Learning how to "draw through"

Chapter 6: Drawing Simple Hands , Feet and Hair

Lecture 1: Intro to Hands

Lecture 2: Simple hand poses

Lecture 3: Simple Feet and shoes

Lecture 4: Drawing the hair part 1

Lecture 5: Drawing the hair part 2

Chapter 7: Your First 3 Cartoon Characters

Lecture 1: Sheriff Steve

Lecture 2: Professor Brown

Lecture 3: Doug the Wizard

Lecture 4: "Your First 3" Bonus Practice PSD Files

Chapter 8: How to Ink Cartoon Characters

Lecture 1: If you are Working Traditional

Lecture 2: Introduction to Inking

Lecture 3: Setting up the Sketch

Lecture 4: The Outline

Lecture 5: The Cleanup

Lecture 6: The Finished Inks

Lecture 7: The Assignment

Chapter 9: How to Color Cartoon Characters (the easy way)

Lecture 1: If you are Working Traditional in Color

Lecture 2: Intro to Color

Lecture 3: Understanding the Color Editor

Lecture 4: Choosing a Color

Lecture 5: Laying in Flats

Lecture 6: Laying in Flats a Different Way

Lecture 7: Light , Highlight and Shadow

Lecture 8: Cleaning up Our image

Lecture 9: Adding Shadow to the Clothing

Lecture 10: Adding Shadow to the Beard

Lecture 11: Skin and Cast Shadows

Lecture 12: Highlights on the Clothing

Lecture 13: Highlights on the Face and Hair

Lecture 14: The Final Pass Through of Our Character

Lecture 15: Your Coloring Assignment

Chapter 10: Part 2 : All about Action Cartoons

Lecture 1: The Plan : Time for Some Action

Chapter 11: Build Your own Figure

Lecture 1: Drawing the Head

Lecture 2: How to Draw the Torso

Lecture 3: How to Draw the Torso pt 2

Lecture 4: Drawing the Shoulder

Lecture 5: Drawing the Arms

Lecture 6: Drawing the Arms pt 2

Lecture 7: Drawing the Legs

Lecture 8: Drawing the Legs pt 2

Lecture 9: About Drawing Female Figures

Chapter 12: Drawing Emotions with Body Language

Lecture 1: Gesture Line

Lecture 2: Rhythm of the Figure

Lecture 3: Neutral Stance

Lecture 4: How to Draw Sitting Poses

Lecture 5: How to Draw Happiness

Lecture 6: How to Draw Sadness