How to Draw Cartoon Characters In Procreate (Udemy.com)
Learn how to bring your cartoon characters to life using Procreate
Created by: Brad Colbow
Last updated February 2019
What you will learn
- The basics of drawing in Procreate on the iPad
- The basics of cartooning from sketching to inking to coloring
- How to use shapes to make your characters look different from each other and develop your own style
- How to use faces and body launguage to convey emotion and personality
How it compares
Against the other 175 rated Udemy courses in Digital Painting on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 76% of them
- Reviews2,992#11 of 176 by number of reviews
- Length3.4 hoursshorter than 55% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2019earlier than 75% of them
Course Description
If you can draw a stick figure you can learn to draw cartoon characters. Most cartoons are made up of simple shapes and understanding how to put them all together to make something fun and interesting is easier than you think.
This course gets you drawing. I don't just want to explain the skills I want to to practice and learn the skills. We start with basic shapes and build upon that foundation. Creating different shape combinations to build our characters and then we talk about how to create clean line work so our characters look professional. Then we talk about how artist choose colors and how to enhance those colors to really make your character pop.
Why Procreate? The best drawing app for the iPad is Procreate. procreate has been listed in the iPad’s top selling apps month after month and for good reason. It rivals many desktops apps for power and features. In this class we tackle Procreate to start drawing on the iPad.
Who is this for:
People who want to improve their art but aren't sure where to start
Illustrators looking to learn some tips and trick using Procreate
People who love drawing and sketching and want to start doing it digitally
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
2,992 Reviews
Brad Colbow
Hi, I’m Brad. I’m a professional graphic designer and Illustrator.
I’ve published comics, run conferences but what I’m best known for is running a Youtube channel where I talk about technology for illustrators. In that time I’ve published reviews on everything from the Surface Pro to the iPad pro. And everything in between.
I believe drawing and illustration is a journey, we are all constantly learning and getting better and I blog about that on my channel as well. I think anyone can learn to draw all it takes is practice.
It’s never to late to pick up a pencil and start learning.
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Reviews
By Michael Fortunato on 2/8/2024
This is an excellent course. Clear, concise, easy-to-follow methodology to creating cartoon characters. From concept to final colors, Brad walks you through his process and allows you the freedom to discover your own style. I hope he does a future video on drawing backgrounds for characters :).
By Lo Kevina on 10/13/2022
The beginning of the course is quite simple, but it gives me an idea on how to explore what the character could be like. The part on colouring is quite good. I would say it is light and easy-to-digest course for beginners learning to draw cartoon characters, as the course name suggested.
By Suyash R on 4/6/2021
I learnt so much about colouring, shaping the characters and also about facial expressions too. I was never a cartoon artist before this course but am sure now that I can draw pretty good cartoons and illustrations too. This course helped me to push my skills more and made me a better artist. Thank You
By Bizzy Ringle on 11/21/2020
im leanring veery much
By Matthew Tso on 11/14/2020
Explain profound in simple language, awesome information.
By Aurore Khelf on 11/14/2020
Love this course
By Dante Howard on 11/14/2020
This course is great. Brad is a great instructor and I look forward to taking more of his courses.
By Osner Rebete on 11/14/2020
He teaches so good but the course is so short and the essential part is at the end
By Deborah Christensen on 11/14/2020
Excellent, well thought out and to the point class. Learned a lot of valuable tips that I can apply to creating my own cartoons.
By Jonah Edward Rocha on 11/14/2020
Amazing
By Abigail Aguirre on 11/7/2020
Instructor's style is very relatable. Love his character and his methodology. I've learned a lot about Procreate while also learning about some basic art principles which I didn't know before. Very useful.
By Manon Bell on 10/26/2020
Brad is a very good teacher. Friendly face, nice voice and I like his humor.
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Overall Score : 94 / 100












