Class101 – Original Characters – Realise your Ideas through Anime – Inspired Digital Painting Free Download

Discover & Cultivate Your Original Characters!

Digital Character Illustration with
Artist, Silyue

WHAT IS THIS CLASS ABOUT?

For those of us who love to create stories, visualising these ideas is a dream. Ever wanted to design your own characters but don’t know where to start? Worry not, we’ll walk you through this step by step! From drawing fundamentals to exploring the concept in sketch, learning to turn these into painted visions will soon be second nature!

WHO IS THIS CLASS FOR?

This course is for beginners and hobbyists who’d like to take their character design to the next level. Learn how to turn your aesthetics and passion for anime into tools for creative expression.

Step 1: Translate Drawing Skills to the Digital Medium

Welcome

Meet Your Instructor: Silyue
Introduction to the Class
Introduction to the Tools

Chapter 1: Basics of Digital Art and Drawing

Interface and Tools
Using Layers and Layer Modes
Customising brushes
Linework in Digital

Chapter 2: Reference and Inspiration

Drawing from life: Nature and the Constructed
Transforming found inspiration
Creating a moodboard

Chapter 3: Conceptual Sketching

Building with shapes
Stylised anatomy and silhouettes
Showing personality: expression, pose & props
Balancing the form: Visual noise & Tonal values

Chapter 4: Colour

Understanding Hue, Tone, & Saturation
Palette making: Harmony, Contrast and Relative Hues
Creating your Colour Bias

Chapter 5: Light and Shadow

Elements of light and shadow
Types of lighting
Hue shifting: Warm & cool

Chapter 6: Rendering

Preparing sketches for painting
Painting to show form
Depicting material: Hair & Eyes
Depicting material: Cloth & Jewelry

Chapter 7: Create an Original Character

Character conceptualization
Personality sketching
Selecting a palette
Rendering character art
Using layouts to best present the concept and design

Bonus Chapter: How I Find My Own Art Style

My art journey
Approach to art: Hobbyist vs. Freelancer

Outro

Congratulations on completing the class!

Meet Your Creator

Silyue

Hello!

I’m Yuette, also known as Silyue/OneiricBlue. Having grown up with a childhood passion for drawing anime and fantasy characters, I currently work as a freelance concept artist and illustrator. I initially started out as a hobbyist posting original character art, but now with over 8 years of character design experience, I actively sell my designs online as “adoptables” and continue to create new concepts to cater for the interests of our art community. Over these years, I’ve been asked to offer my advice and opinions on various original concepts and designs, so I’m really honoured to finally be able to open a course which addresses the process and knowledge of character design from square one!