How To Improve Your Creature Design Drawings - Step By Step

Learn to Draw Amazing Creature Concepts with Confidence!

What you'll learn

You will learn how to draw a variety of creature concepts.

Proficiently draw from your imagination.

The techniques to developing a creature transformation.

You will learn how to draw quick thumbnails to spark your creative thinking.

Requirements

Basic understanding on how to draw either traditionally or digitally.

Description

In this course you will learn how to draw a variety of creature concepts step by step. You will learn the tricks and techniques that artists use each and every day to improve their skills and draw these imaginative concepts with ease. You will learn how to create studies of the spine and why that is so important to understand. You will learn about combining animals traits to create new concepts. You will learn how to quickly thumbnail lots of various ideas to spark creativity. You will also learn about the importance of proportions, working from a script, understanding the differences from predator to prey, and much more!In section 2 of this course you will complete a project file from a script to implement what you have learned. This will help you to understand how client work is done and what you need to accomplish in that process.In section 3 of this course you will learn how to create a creature transformation. We will start with a cute and friendly concept and transition it to something more aggressive looking. This can be a fun and informative way to practice what you have learned in this course.I just added a new section on drawing a creature design and rendering the it in a line art style.  This should add some valuable lessons to this course for anyone that likes to draw in a comic art style.  This new section is 1.5 hours long and was added on June 2023.With this course you also get Q+A Video responses.  So as great questions come in from you and other students, I answer them back and it makes for a better course experience for everyone!I am confident that you will find this course to be extremely valuable and it is supported with a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.I am also here if you have any questions and feedback for me to make this course a better experience for everyone!Robert A. MarzulloRam Studios Comics

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Various Techniques for Drawing Creature Designs

Lecture 2 L1 - The Spine Says it All

Lecture 3 L2 - Thumbnailing the Concepts

Lecture 4 L3 - The Brain Box

Lecture 5 L4 - Creating Variations in Your Concepts

Lecture 6 L5 - Animal Leg Studies

Lecture 7 L6 - Merging Concepts Together

Lecture 8 L7 - Adjusting Proportions

Section 3: Project Ogre

Lecture 9 L8 - Thumbnailing Our Concept

Lecture 10 L9 - Cleaning up Our Concept

Lecture 11 L10 - Refining the Drawing

Section 4: Drawing a Creature Transformation

Lecture 12 Lesson 1 - Drawing a Cute Creature Design

Lecture 13 Lesson 2 - Drawing Stage 2 of Our Creature Transformation

Lecture 14 Lesson 3 - Drawing Stage 2 of our Creature Transformation - Part 2

Lecture 15 Lesson 4 - Drawing Stage 3 of our Creature Transformation

Lecture 16 Lesson 5 - Drawing Stage 3 of our Creature Transformation - Part 2

Lecture 17 Lesson 6 - Drawing Stage 3 of our Creature Transformation - Part 3

Lecture 18 Lesson 7 - Finishing Touches and Your Assignment

Section 5: Creature Design - Textures and Rendering

Lecture 19 Rough Sketch of the Creature Concept

Lecture 20 Detailing the Eye Wrinkles

Lecture 21 Adding Pockets of Shadows

Lecture 22 Rendering the Details on the Ear and Neck

Lecture 23 Detailing the Rest of the Face to Our Creature Design

Lecture 24 Inking the Art in Real Time

Lecture 25 Inking the Rest of the Artwork

Lecture 26 Finishing Touches

Section 6: Q + A Section

Lecture 27 Adding Wrinkles to Our Creature Concepts - Part 1

Lecture 28 Adding Wrinkles to Our Creature Concepts - Part 2

Lecture 29 Adding Wrinkles to Our Creature Concepts - Part 3

Lecture 30 Bonus Lecture

Anyone that wants to know how to draw a variety of creature designs.,Anyone that wants to learn how to improve their drawing techniques.