Anime Academy: Poses and Characters

Your complete guide to drawing and posing characters from start to finish!

What you’ll learn

• How to draw poses
• Basic human proportions
• Gesture
• Illustration making

Requirements

• Photoshop (or any other drawing program) and a drawing tablet
• Paper and Pencil are optional

Description

• Did you know that poor posing in a drawing can make your character look bad even if it’s a cool idea?
• Do you want to learn how to avoid the most common posing problems such as stiff and awkward poses, and weird framing (which leads to awkward cropping of hands and feet)?
• Do you want to be able to show more stuff in a single drawing, like backgrounds, other characters, and story?
• Do you want to be able to draw your characters as you imagined them and impress everyone with how cool your characters look?

Good posing is essential for making great character art. In this course, I will show you how to draw good poses and avoid all those beginner mistakes, and more! This course will push your character art to the next level! Here’s what you get with the course: You’ll get access to the 8 sections of the course that will teach you the step-by-step process of drawing well-proportioned figures, understanding the basics of gesture, how to draw a variety of poses, and making your own illustration from start to finish. The course is supported with over 7 hours of content that I will guide you through each step of the way! All yours instantly:

• The course starts with the basics. I will teach you a simple proportional method for the figure, and how you can apply it to drawing mannequins.
• Next, you will get a basic overview of how gesture works. A gesture is important for making your poses feel alive.
• Following that, I will be showing you tips on making your poses feel more natural, such as observing people, studying old artists, understanding posture, and more!
• Then, you will be drawing different types of poses ranging from casual to more dynamic poses.
• For the last project, I will be showing you how to plan poses for artworks, and show you the process of making your own illustration from scratch.

Over the 8 sections you will learn:

• How to make good proportions
• How to draw mannequins
• Gestures
• How to draw sitting poses
• How to draw standing poses
• How to draw lounging poses
• How to draw running poses
• How to draw fighting poses
• How to draw jumping poses
• Storytelling in illustrations
• Illustration making

Who this course is for:

• Beginners struggling with poses
• Beginners wanting to learn how to pose characters
• Beginners who want to make their character look cool
• Beginners learning to draw complex poses