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Character Art School: Complete Coloring & Painting (Udemy.com)

Transformative training for Coloring and Painting Professional Characters for Animation, Games, Comics, Manga and More.

Created by: Scott Harris

Last updated August 2026

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What you will 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

How it compares

Against the other 175 rated Udemy courses in Digital Painting on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 92% of them
  • Reviews6,042#4 of 176 by number of reviews
  • Length19.5 hourslonger than 93% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 98% of them

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Overall Score : 96 / 100

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Course Description

Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting — The Online Character Coloring and Painting Course for Beginner to Advanced Artists

Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting is a comprehensive 6-week online character coloring and painting course that teaches you to color and paint professional characters with confidence and skill. Built from the ground up on proven color theory, color and light fundamentals, and professional digital painting workflows, this is the only character coloring course you need — whether you're an absolute beginner picking up digital painting for the first time, or an intermediate artist ready to take your character art to a professional level.

Across 5 in-depth video modules, Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting covers everything from core color theory and light and shadow principles to advanced character rendering, shading techniques, and professional digital painting workflows used in game art, illustration, comics, and animation. You'll gain the full picture — theory, application, and practice — so your coloring and painting skills grow fast and stick.

Whether your goal is character coloring for concept art, comics, manga, anime-style illustration, animation, or Disney-style character painting, Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting gives you the foundations to get there with complete confidence.

Learn to Color and Paint Characters — With Confidence, Without Fear, Without Fluff


The Most Comprehensive Online Character Coloring and Painting Course Available

Learning to color and paint characters well requires more than watching random digital painting tutorials online. You need structured, complete instruction — grounded in the color theory and color and light principles that professional character artists actually use.

Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting is one of the most thorough online character painting courses available, inspired by master artists and built on a complete theoretical foundation. Whether you're a beginner or intermediate artist, you'll discover color theory principles, light and shadow techniques, and character rendering workflows you never knew you were missing — the kind of knowledge that immediately changes the quality of your work.

Not satisfied? You get a no-questions-asked refund. That's how confident we are in this course.


Clear, Structured Lessons That Actually Teach You to Color and Paint Characters

Most online digital painting courses either drown you in abstract theory or skip it entirely. Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting strikes the right balance — every lesson is crystal clear, logically sequenced, and purpose-built for learning character coloring and painting efficiently.

The course is modular by design — follow it chronologically for a complete, structured learning path through color theory, light and shadow, shading, rendering, and professional painting workflows, then return to individual modules to revisit specific techniques at your own pace. Whether you're working in Photoshop, Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, or any other digital painting software, the principles taught here apply universally. No filler. No fluff. Just the most important color theory and digital character painting techniques, taught with total clarity.


Assignments That Accelerate Your Character Coloring and Painting Progress

Color theory and painting principles only become real skills through practice. That's why every module in Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting includes purpose-built assignments that bridge the gap between what you've learned and what you can paint.

Each assignment is built around core color and light theory concepts — hue, value, saturation, light and shadow, rendering, and colour harmony — and is designed to feel genuinely rewarding to complete. Students consistently report seeing a visible improvement in their character coloring and painting within the first few sessions. Better character art comes from doing — so let's start painting.


Learn Character Coloring and Painting for Games, Comics, Manga, Animation & More

Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting teaches you to be fundamentally strong at character coloring and painting — not locked into one style, software, or method. That means whether your focus is:

  • Character coloring and painting for video games and concept art

  • Comic book and graphic novel coloring

  • Manga and anime-style character coloring

  • Animation and Disney-style character painting

  • Digital character illustration using Photoshop, Procreate, or Clip Studio Paint

  • Color theory and light and shadow fundamentals for character art


...Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting gives you the theoretical grounding and practical skills to color and paint characters in any style you choose. Master color theory and rendering fundamentals, and every style becomes within reach.

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Instructor Details

Scott Harris

Scott Harris is a professional character artist, illustrator, painter and concept designer. Scott is Art Director of DAS: School of Art and Design, and Character Art School, and is the author of Draw Manga Style: A Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide for Drawing Anime and Manga published by Quarry Books and available worldwide. Scott has worked with Sony, Epic, Oxford Press and many more. Scott has a straight-forward and no-fluff approach to teaching, ensuring that students learn quickly and efficiently. Scott is inspired by sci-fi and fantasy art, video games and cinema, Japanese culture and Manga.

Follow him on Youtube @artofscott or Instagram @artofscott_

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Reviews

4.8

6,042 ratings on Udemy

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By Rachel Herron on 3/27/2026

Dear Scott, I wanted to reach out and thank you for your incredible course on character coloring. It has been an absolute masterclass and exactly what I needed. While I initially sought out hair coloring techniques, your lessons on the fundamentals of light were transformative. You simplified a subject I typically find too dense to follow, and I finally feel confident applying light sources to my work. I also deeply appreciated the instruction on layer management; it is such a vital skill that is often overlooked. Thank you also for providing the high-quality brushes and the generous three-hour preview. Your confidence and willingness to share your knowledge are truly inspiring. I cannot speak highly enough of this course. Thank you for your generosity and for sharing your expertise.

By Veronica Rodriguez on 10/12/2023

I had never done digital art until this course, even though I had a software for it. This course gave me a basic understanding on how to use a lot of digital art tools, and it was very easy to understand. I like all the painting styles, but since I was using Clip Studio Paint Pro and not Photoshop, I didn't have some of the brushes required. I did manage to somehow make a brush close to a square brush, but I didn't even know what brush was used for the smooth painterly style. I was told to ask the FaceBook group, but no one answered my question.

By Adriano Luís de Paula Veríssimo on 3/16/2021

Recomendo muito este curso!!! Quando entrei no curso, eu sabia pouco sobre colorização. Eu não entendia muito bem por que algumas sombras e luzes apareciam no desenho e como elas eram representadas. Ao terminar, aprendi muito sobre teoria da colorização, entendendo bem melhor sobre sombra e luz. Também aprendi sobre o processo para se colorir e arte-finalizar um desenho, e também sobre estilos de pinturas diferentes. Possui também ótimos exemplos de colorização para se acompanhar e absorver mais do processo de colorização. Recomendo muito, principalmente para os iniciantes de colorização. Além de melhorar na pintura, o aluno sai do curso também entendendo como as técnicas e teorias funcionam.

By AgoRuzos on 11/7/2020

The content looks valuable already

By Vincent Czapla on 10/25/2020

Extremely helpful. I've been working with digital artwork for a few years now and always struggled with lighting on final pieces. No matter how many how to video's and articles I looked at, I always felt like I was missing some vital piece of information. As soon as I took this class, I began to notice a big improvement in my work. Overall, it's straight to the point and covers a lot of fundamental theory.

By Debangana Guha on 10/23/2020

It is a pretty good course for character coloring.

By Anonymous on 10/22/2020

Easy to understand!

By HUGH ROOKWOOD on 10/19/2020

yes!

By Ben Dalling on 10/17/2020

It's great so far!

By Jessica Gabriela Suryono on 10/15/2020

Yes, it is important to study the coloring and I shall improve more coloring to look better.

By Emmanuel Ochwaya on 10/9/2020

Awesome stuff Scott.

By Rachel Roberts on 10/9/2020

This is the second course I've taken by Scott Harris, as the first one was AMAZING! So far, this one is equally good!

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