Doodle Warriors Essentials by Angel Ganev

Your Roadmap to Mastering Art Fundamentals

Many aspiring artists struggle with the dull and complex theory behind the fundamentals. They often lack a clear plan for mastering them and don’t know how to apply these skills to their own art.

In Essentials, you’ll discover the Build Up Method, a unique step-by-step approach that teaches you how to master proportions, perspective, anatomy, shading, and color by applying these fundamentals directly to your portrait and figure paintings.

The Key to Accurate Proportions

• How to avoid “same face syndrome” and finally draw what you envision instead of repeating the same mistakes over and over.
• Why you should never guess proportions, but instead follow a method that helps you spot and correct mistakes, allowing you to consistently create drawings you love.

The Secret of Perspective

• Learn the simple rule of perspective that will instantly give your drawings depth and a 3D look.
• Stop wasting time on tutorials covering “advanced perspective” — what you need is “Simple Perspective,” which provides the essential depth your art has been missing.
• Why improving a flat drawing is impossible, and how fixing flatness will help you avoid Imposter Syndrome.

The Easiest Way to Approach Anatomy

• Discover an easy way to understand anatomy that doesn’t require memorizing every muscle (leave that to med students!).
• Start your painting with this technique to make your characters look three-dimensional, no matter your art style.
• Learn how to mentally divide the body into eight parts, which will help you create dynamic, fluid movements instead of static, lifeless figures.
• Master the ability to quickly draw poses and gestures in 5-10 minutes, making your characters look 3D in the process.
• How to catch and fix your mistakes as you draw, so you don’t end up with art you’re unhappy with.

The Simple Guide to Line Art

• How to keep your line art from looking worse than your sketches—there’s just one simple trick you’re missing to make your drawings come alive.
• The brush setting you need to turn on in your art app to make your line art look more professional and give your drawings that “wow” factor.
• Thousands of students have instantly improved their drawings to look 3D—whether they’ve just bought a digital tablet or have been practicing for years. Just follow this one exercise to give your art a realistic, 3D effect.

The Step-by-Step Shading Process

• A clear, step-by-step shading process that isn’t messy or muddy (this secret works for any art style!).
• How to make your drawings look better than the reference.
• The common mistake artists make when choosing references for shading practice.
• Get downloadable ZIP and PSD files with reference images and sketches to practice shading, along with a special tool to help you identify where light and shadows should fall.

The Color Formula

• Learn the Color Formula for creating paintings that look vibrant and lifelike.
• Forget about studying complicated color theory—there’s a simpler way for aspiring artists.
• How to simplify color painting, avoiding the confusion that even experienced digital artists face.
• Master the concept of “Color Shifting” to make your paintings’ colors pop and come alive—this is the heart of the Color Formula.
• Discover the lighting secret professional artists use to make their work even more dynamic. (Use these references to elevate your drawings to a professional level, too!)

This course is your step-by-step guide to mastering the fundamentals and transforming your artwork!