Character Art School: Complete Coloring & Painting Course
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Character Art School: Complete Coloring & Painting Course

The Best Way to Learn to Color and Paint Professional Characters for Animation, Games, Comics, Manga and More.

Created by Scott Harris, Art Director & Lead Instructor
19.5 hours
Video Content
83
Lectures
83,212
Students
4.8
Rating
4.8
(83,212 students enrolled)

What you'll learn

How to Paint Characters from Beginner to Advanced
How to Color Characters using Multiple Techniques
How to Color Comic Book Characters
How to Color Manga
How to Color Anime
How to Paint Digitally and Use that Theory with Traditional Tools

Course Content

8 sections • 83 lectures • 19:32:24 total length

Introduction

3 lectures • 15:03

Introduction02:29
Coloring and Painting Tools12:30
Updates, Resources and Community00:04

Module 1: Light and Color Art Fundamentals

15 lectures • 01:40:40

Light, Color and the Eye07:21
The Scale of Light08:24
Perception of Forms04:54
Planes05:10
Light and Reflection09:49
+10 more lectures

Module 2: Using Digital Tools

14 lectures • 51:45

Introduction01:18
General Tools Overview05:15
Canvas Size and Resolution Guide03:41
Installing Brushes02:04
Keyboard Shortcuts Guide08:02
+9 more lectures

Module 3: The Character Coloring and Painting Workflow

25 lectures • 02:10:04

Workflow Overview02:47
Digital Canvas Pre-production03:08
Illustration Preparation04:17
Stage 1: Local Color09:08
Stage 2: Variations05:43
+20 more lectures

Module 4: Coloring and Painting Styles

8 lectures • 57:27

Introduction to Character Coloring and Painting Styles01:42
Achieving Flat Coloring and Gradient Style Coloring09:49
Achieving Animation and Anime Cell-Shaded Style Coloring09:01
Achieving Digital Water-Color and Rough Style Coloring14:14
Achieving Chunky, brush-stroked Style Painting12:44
+3 more lectures

Module 5: Comprehensive Character Coloring and Painting Demos

9 lectures • 10:51:49

Intro to Full Demos01:12
DEMO 1: Carmi Timelapse with Commentary10:36
DEMO 1: Carmi Full Painting Demo03:07:09
DEMO 2: ChronoViper Timelapse with Commentary08:11
DEMO 2: ChronoViper Full Coloring Demo01:32:40
+4 more lectures

Conclusion

1 lectures • 00:46

Conclusion to the Course00:46

Additional Content

8 lectures • 02:44:48

DEMO: Beach Girl Full Painting Demo01:19:17
DEMO: Asuka Full Painting Demo01:15:09
DEMO: Emerald Portrait Painting Demo10:16
Photoshop Keyboard Shortcut Guide00:01
Paint Tool Sai Brush Settings00:01
+3 more lectures

Description

What is Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting?

Character Art School is a 6 week learn-anywhere video course where you learn to become adept at coloring and painting professional characters. I’ve hand-crafted the Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting course to be the only course you need, to learn all the core fundamentals and advanced techniques to coloring and painting characters well. If you’re an absolute beginner or you’re already at an intermediate level, the course will advance your current ability to a professional level. The course is a comprehensive 5 module guided video course, where the only limit to your progression is your determination and engagement in the rewarding assignments.

Whether you want to color and paint character concept art for films and games, illustrations, comics, manga, Disney style or other styles, this is the course you need to get you there.

I’ll teach you to color and paint with confidence and without fear. I’ll teach you to color and paint well. You will know all the core theory, workflows and practical application for professional level Character Coloring and Painting.


Finally, Learn Character Coloring and Painting Well

Whether you’re a complete beginner, or intermediate at character coloring and painting, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew. Seriously. Inspired by masters and built on the theory of giants, Character Drawing Academy is one of, if not the most comprehensive character coloring and painting course out there. I’m so convinced of this, I’ll give you a no-questions asked refund if you’re not satisfied.


Clear, Easy to Understand Lessons

Crystal clear in fact. Learning character coloring and painting effectively means having information presented in a logical and coherent way. The Character Coloring and Painting Course is modular by design, easy to grasp, and allows you to learn in a well paced, structured way. Engage in the course chronologically, then revise each module at your leisure. Grasp concepts faster than you ever have before – there’s no fluff here. You'll also find that Coloring and Painting is grounded in very solid and complete theory. Learn rapidly.


Assignments that are Rewarding

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, each module’s assignments have been designed to both reinforce theory, and feel rewarding. I’ve taken the core of Color and Light theory, and purpose built each assignment to help you rapidly progress, and you’ll see the difference in your own work almost immediately. Art is about doing, so let’s get started.


What's Your Style?

Whether you want to learn to color and paint characters for games, comics, cartoons, manga, animation and more, this course has you covered. I'm not teaching you a 'method' or a 'way' to color and paint, I'm teaching you to be a fundamentally good character colorist and painter.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn to color and paint characters well, in any style
  • Individuals who love character art, from Video Game Art, to Animation, Comics, Manga and more

This course includes:

  • 19.5 hours on-demand video
  • 12 articles
  • 16 downloadable resources
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Full lifetime access
  • Certificate of completion

Instructor

Scott Harris, Art Director & Lead Instructor

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