Character Art Academy: Complete Coloring and Painting Course
The Best Way to Learn to Color and Paint Professional Characters for Animation, Games, Comics, Manga and More.
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What is Character Art Academy: Complete Coloring and Painting?
Character Art Academy is a 6 week learn-anywhere video course where you learn to become adept at coloring and painting professional characters. I’ve hand-crafted the Character Art Academy: Complete Coloring and Painting course to be the only course you need, to learn all the core fundamentals and advanced techniques to coloring and painting characters well. If you’re an absolute beginner or you’re already at an intermediate level, the course will advance your current ability to a professional level. The course is a comprehensive 5 module guided video course, where the only limit to your progression is your determination and engagement in the rewarding assignments.
Whether you want to color and paint character concept art for films and games, illustrations, comics, manga, Disney style or other styles, this is the course you need to get you there.
I’ll teach you to color and paint with confidence and without fear. I’ll teach you to color and paint well. You will know all the core theory, workflows and practical application for professional level Character Coloring and Painting.
Finally, Learn Character Coloring and Painting Well
Whether you’re a complete beginner, or intermediate at character coloring and painting, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew. Seriously. Inspired by masters and built on the theory of giants, Character Painting Academy is one of, if not the most comprehensive character coloring and painting course out there. I’m so convinced of this, I’ll give you a no-questions asked refund if you’re not satisfied.
Clear, Easy to Understand Lessons
Crystal clear in fact. Learning character coloring and painting effectively means having information presented in a logical and coherent way. The Character Coloring and Painting Course is modular by design, easy to grasp, and allows you to learn in a well paced, structured way. Engage in the course chronologically, then revise each module at your leisure. Grasp concepts faster than you ever have before – there’s no fluff here. You'll also find that Coloring and Painting is grounded in very solid and complete theory. Learn rapidly.
Assignments that are Rewarding
Bridging the gap between theory and practice, each module’s assignments have been designed to both reinforce theory, and feel rewarding. I’ve taken the core of Color and Light theory, and purpose built each assignment to help you rapidly progress, and you’ll see the difference in your own work almost immediately. Art is about doing, so let’s get started.
What's Your Style?
Whether you want to learn to color and paint characters for games, comics, cartoons, manga, animation and more, this course has you covered. I'm not teaching you a 'method' or a 'way' to color and paint, I'm teaching you to be a fundamentally good character colorist and painter.
Your Instructor
As an illustrator, painter and art instructor, I’ve helped more than 270,000 students grow their art skills, learn to draw characters, understand coloring and perspective, and much more. Whether you’re drawing characters, creatures, making manga or comics, painting portraits or creating worlds, I teach the core art knowledge you need to know to reach a high level quickly. I’ve invested years in learning the fundamental theories behind art and animation, teaching you to think like a master artist. I'm a zealous teacher that strives to bring students to a high level efficiently, with simple, easy to understand concepts, built on rock solid art theory. When you learn with me, you’ll learn well, and learn efficiently. That’s my promise to you.
Course Curriculum
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StartLecture 4: Light, Color and the Eye (7:21)
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StartLecture 5: The Scale of Light (8:24)
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StartLecture 6: Perception of Forms (4:54)
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StartLecture 7: Planes (5:10)
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StartLecture 8: Light and Reflection (9:49)
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StartLecture 9: The Form Lighting Principle (22:04)
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StartLecture 10: Understanding Color (6:28)
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StartLecture 11: Color Shifting (5:56)
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StartLecture 12: Color Schemes (10:12)
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PreviewLecture 13: Dynamic Lighting (7:40)
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StartLecture 14: Atmospheric Perspective (3:30)
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StartLecture 15: Edge Differentiation (6:44)
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StartLecture 16: Observation (2:26)
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StartLecture 17: Module 1 Assignments
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StartLecture 18: Module 1 Resources
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StartLecture 19: Introduction (1:18)
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StartLecture 20: General Tools Overview (5:16)
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StartLecture 21: Canvas Size and Resolution Guide (3:41)
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StartLecture 22: Installing Brushes (2:04)
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StartLecture 23: Keyboard Shortcuts Guide (8:02)
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StartLecture 24: Brush Flow and Opacity (12:51)
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StartLecture 25: Blending and Color Picking (1:07)
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StartLecture 26: Digital Color Picker (2:10)
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StartLecture 27: Layers and Layer Modes (5:48)
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StartLecture 28: Understanding Selections (2:32)
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StartLecture 29: Understanding Adjustments (3:06)
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StartLecture 30: User Interface Layouts (2:30)
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StartLecture 31: Software Adaptation (1:20)
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StartLecture 32: Module 2 Resources