The Ultimate guide to drawing cartoon characters (Udemy.com)

Use this simple technique and learn how to draw great cartoon characters in no time. Make your dream come true.

( 109 Reviews )

Created by: Maria Avramova

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

In this course you will learn a simple technique that will help you to draw cartoony characters. Whether you are a beginner or youve been doing this for a while you can quickly learn how to draw freely and how to design different characters. You will learn how to make a character cute or evil and how to give them emotions. But not only that. You will also learn how a specific body posture correlates to a certain emotion and you can enhance your characters facial expression by applying the right body posture to them. Using a simple principle of drawing spheres you can draw any character you want, you can change styles and adjust your design to your liking or to your potential clients preferences. You can choose a simple style if you are on a tight budget or you can draw advanced Disney-like characters for your portfolio or for your childrens book.
How to find your own style
How to conquer your fear of drawing
What makes a character cute
How to dr

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Course Description

New: Bonus video on how to draw proportions when you pose your character.
If you have ever dreamt of becoming a character designer or an illustrator of childrens books or just to be able to draw cartoony characters for your kids, even teaching them how to do it, this is the right course for you. It can be overwhelming when you dont know how to start and where to start from. But I will show you one very simple technique which will open the doors to your creativity and will take away your fear of failure once and for all. Because this is the only thing that is stopping you from that unfullfilled dream of yours.
So, what will you learn here:
How to loosen your hand and free your mind through the right technique so that you can draw anything you want.
Understand the basics of what makes a character looks cartoony, cute or evil.
Understand and experiment with many different designs for making a cartoony character. Find your own style.
Give motion and emotion to your character.
Learn how to apply facial expressions to exactly your particular character and design.
Attach the right facial expression to a body posture to make the emotion stronger.
How to keep the proportions of the character the same in different drawings.
How to draw cartoony hands.
Who this course is for:
Beginners Illustrators, Intermediate Illustrators, Animators, Parents who want to teach their kids to draw, or who want to learn to make a picture book to their kids

Time: 7h

Instructor Details

Maria Avramova

4.6 Rating
109 Reviews

I am a character design, film director, animator and illustrator. Ihave worked in the animation industry for over 15 years, bringing characters to life.
I have worked with clients such as McDonalds and Ericsson to create a top notch 3D animated characters for the their commercials.
Ive had the privilage to direct actors such as Sir Roger Moore and Peter Stormare among all, as voice actors for animated movies. Ive worked with renown illustrators and screenwriters such as Iain McCaig, the legendary designer from Star Wars, to breath life to stories and characters.
The TV-show Ive recently wrote and directed, called Space Yoghurt, is having a worldwide success and has been featured twice in the Animation Magazine.
I started my life as an artist at the age of 13 when I attended art school. The first year we had to draw 50 drawings a day, after school. It seemed a lot, but now I know it was what it took to be able to draw well. I know what it takes to became an artist, but also I know the struggle of the process.
Im here to share with you the knowledge that Ive been gathering through my experience on how to draw. Im also here to inspire you and let you know that each one of the artists you admire today has one been a beginner. Having said that, Im going to share with you some shortcuts to how you can start drawing and get a result immidiately, because, sure you need to put in the work, but inspiration is what will keep you going.
You will see that you too ha

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By Brenda Clark on 11/14/2020

You are right i can draw cartoon characters. The course helped so much and I cannot wait to make my books . Thank you so much

By Salem Melaku Hailu on 11/7/2020

I expected to learn a lot about principles and techniques of drawing cartoony characters. They are not found here.

By Janet Chisnall on 10/26/2020

Maria is excellent - I'm only up to lesson 3 just yet, but her explanation of perspective on a sphere was brilliant, clear and simple - and illustrated in a very practical way. Extremely happy with the course so far, and find Maria very engaging in the videos.

By Paul Thompson on 10/21/2020

Enjoying this so far. Great course!

By Joel Turinski on 10/13/2020

Yes

By Jason Parrish on 9/20/2020

awesome instructor. love the way she teaches

By Dhanjyoti Sanghvi on 9/20/2020

She's genuine in wanting to teach and sincerely shares her knowledge, thank you for this course

By Jessica Gabriela Suryono on 9/20/2020

Yes, it is interesting

By Elsie Naude on 9/20/2020

This is exactly what I was looking for to help me create lively illustrations on-the-go for story telling

By Shadrach Samuel on 9/16/2020

What I think about this so far it feels great for me well, the truth is that I have always dreamed of being a illustrator so I tried it out and my book was called Crunky the crocodile but I didn't publish it. I also love to make movie characters of my own but the point was that I didn't know HOW to dram them. But I'm happy that I am learning about how to draw characters and when I grow up maybe I might be a illustrator. If you didn't catch my name, I am Shadrach Samuel and I am 8years old. Thank you.

By Fazl Metehan irin on 9/10/2020

In this course you will find the fundamentals of constructing the form of your characters which you can use both in your illustrations and animations. This methodology will save you time and brain energy. I totally recommend this course.

By Sarah Whitworth on 9/3/2020

Love the loosening the hands technique and drawing the spheres. I feel like it is already helping me as I'm usually a perfectionist and get stuck!