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Cartooning and Character Design: The Pirate Edition! (Udemy.com)

How to draw cartoons in Adobe Photoshop - Learn the cartoon drawing design process from start to finish!

Created by: Malcolm Monteith

Last updated February 2018

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What you will learn

  • If you follow along with the lectures, by the end of this workshop you will have produced five full colour characters for you to share with the world!
  • Long term results will be achieved by taking in all the drawing and photoshop tips shared throughout the course and then applying these to your own characters. The more you draw, the better you will become!

How it compares

Against the other 194 rated Udemy courses in Drawing on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 67% of them
  • Reviews79#165 of 195 by number of reviews
  • Length1.6 hoursshorter than 80% of them
  • Last updatedFebruary 2018earlier than 82% of them

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Course Description

In this course I’ll be taking you through my general thought process when designing characters. Starting with their personalities, then bringing in visual elements that will make the character believable, using simple shapes as my foundation, the rough sketch, the inking stage and finally adding colour and shadows! 

I’ll be conducting this course using Adobe Photoshop and a Wacom tablet – but if you’d rather follow along using traditional materials, the core teachings in this course can be applied to other mediums as well.

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Instructor Details

Malcolm Monteith

Oh hello there! My name is Malcolm Monteith, I am an artist and illustrator from Australia - It is a glorious nation, filled with great coffee and things that can kill you. My artistic adventures include things such as illustrating logos, posters, comics, selling oil paintings and watercolours in galleries and eating chips.      

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Reviews

4.7

79 ratings on Udemy

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By Patrick Frei on 12/27/2025

The course provides an inspiring and comprehensible method and motivates participants to create their own illustrations.

By Gustavo G Shahin on 8/28/2020

This course is good and it could help me on drawing in the computer.

By Yiannis Tzanakis on 10/4/2019

Pretty straight forward so far... all good! Drawn only Dave for now, but i will try some of those technics on some characters of my own. It was very helpful!!!!

By Andrés Vallés on 6/12/2019

Take into account this course is to learn how to draw these five characters. However, everything is very well defined in a step by step basis. You need some drawing knowledge. Malcom's sense of humor makes lessons very enjoyable and fun

By Maria Eid on 1/8/2019

What a clean and neat course. I truly enjoyed it

By Andrea Gentili on 9/22/2018

Not exactly a course, but you end up knowing more than when you started, you spend some fun time, and finally you really understand the basics on real designs. Thanks!

By Liz on 7/19/2018

Learnt a lot!.... Creative character building 5* Photoshop techniques (refresher / new tips) 5* Style of course 5* Well recommended...anyone will get something from it...not just for creating pirates.

By Joe Rich on 2/12/2018

Fantastic course! Well paced, a perfect blend of detailed information and succint delivery. Malcolm is incredibly knowledgable and teaches in a fun, engaging way. Would love more courses on other types of characters...

By Diane Bell on 2/11/2018

This course deserves ten stars. It was exactly what I was looking for. It will definitely help me continue my goal of creating cartoon characters for t-shirts, coffee mugs, greeting cards, book covers and more. Thank you, Malcolm.

By Emma Smith on 2/11/2018

It's a very detailed and helpful course! I have zero experience in digital drawing and just wanted to explore my new interest in photoshop. This is a perfect course for beginners and I think it will also be very useful for people from any other levels. I can't wait to draw my first pirate!

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Overall Score : 94 / 100