Designing Dragons by Antonio Stappaerts

Description
Are you ready to design the ultimate dragon? In this one-of-a-kind course, you’ll learn design fundamentals alongside specialized knowledge geared towards getting you on the road to designing your own dragons. Whether you’re a beginner looking to lay down a strong artistic foundation for further learning, or an experienced artist searching for new approaches to creature design, this course has something for you.

This course contains a blend of Art-Wod content and completely new exclusive content, to ensure that you’ll learn everything there is to know about design from structuralization to manipulation, observation, education, imitation, emulation, and imagination, all while designing the dragons of your dreams.

The course is structured based on the 6-step principle as laid out by Art-Wod founder Antonio Stappaerts

BONUS: A real time bonus demo of Antonio showing students how he uses color and shading to bring his final dragon design to life! Complete with tips and tricks for improving your rendering skills.

What you will learn

1 Imagination
From thumbnails to reference gathering and refinement, you will learn industry practices that will elevate your design skills and prepare you for the professional field!

2 Imitation
Mannequinize a dragon and use all the knowledge you gained from previous course lessons to imitate and redesign your favorite artists’ work. A crucial step to becoming a better creature designer!

3 Anatomy
Learn the similarities between human and animal anatomy and how to use this information to help design your dragon

4 Observation
With a focus on dragon design, you will learn to observe reptiles, birds and insects to increase your visual library. You’ll learn to observe and see the world from a professional artist’s point of view

5 Manipulation
Learn about the secrets of form manipulation to boost your drawing skills and help you draw complex objects

6 Structure
We brush over intuitive perspective and how to train your spatial awareness using simple form