Designed for kids who want to draw characters from their favourite games, movies and books. Taught by professional game design artist Ali Naqvi, this class will focus on teaching drawing fundamentals to students 8-12 years old. Students will learn to draw realistic and comic figures from scratch, create vehicles and locations, and tell stories through comic panelling.
Students will need either sketchbooks or Digital Tablets, the instruction will be provided for both digital and traditional media.
Topics covered:Perspective
1 point perspective
2 point perspective +
3 point perspective
Thumbnails
Creating smaller sketches to prioritize areas of interest
Lights and values
Gradients vs sudden value changes and how these changes are interpreted
Proper shading techniques
Separation of positive and negative space
Simple Still Life with fruits and vegetables
Stylized anatomy
Stylized facial features
Stylized self portrait
Anime
How to draw anime eyes
Realistic Anatomy
Torso
Arms
Legs
neck
Hands and Feet
Realistic facial proportions
How to draw different parts of the face
Eyes, nose, ears
Sketching Renaissance era statues
Creating from imagination
How to use simple shapes to create more complicated forms
How to make shapes, straight lines and curves
Drawing cars
Drawing planes
Sketching mammals
Sketching reptiles
Identifying characteristics such as eyes, scales and facial proportions
Drawing birds
Hybrid animals
Imaginary animals
Spotlights
Marvel
DC
Disney
Manga
