Character Design From Prompts: Turn Words Into Characters!

1. Introduction: Hi, there. Are you unsure of what to draw or do you want to turn simple words into a fully fleshed-out character, then this is the course for you. Hi, I'm B2C caldera, an illustrator and art teacher. And I'm here to teach everyone the best and simplest ways to draw in very easy to follow courses. In this course we're going to be turning simple drawing prompts into lovable characters. First, we're going to start by finding the best drawing prompts on something that interests you. I'll show you many different ways to do this and even include a few personal drawing prompt lists that you can use. Then we'll get to brainstorming. We're going to be sketching our cattle right away and coming up with a few different options to use. Once that's done, we're going to be cleaning everything up. We'll add details and draw beautiful line art on our sketch out character. Finally, we're going to color or character. You'll find the best free resources to choose your colors. And I'll even show you a very simple and straightforward way to color your character. All of these with short and engaging videos. This is a highly practical course. You'll not only be seeing me show you the entire process of turning a drawing prompts into a character. But you'll also be making your own. You'll have work to show for your time. What are you waiting for joining the course? And I will see you in the next video. 2. How To Find The Best Drawing Prompts: Hello and welcome. Before we choose our prompt and start our drawings. What is a drawing? Proms drink prompt is a word or several words that will help us come up with new drawing ideas. This is especially helpful when you're going through and not block or you just out of ideas, drawing prompts bring new and refreshing ideas to help us keep motivated. For example, here's a drawing I did by using the prompts book vary. But just like with anything, sometimes it can be hard to come up with our own drawing prompts. There are many ways to go about this, but here are my tree favorites. One, think of a theme. Think about things that you enjoy and just draw something related to it. For example, which my theme here is, which? So now I can just draw as many witches as I want. You can even be more specific Academy a witch's. Now, I'll focus on drawing a parenthesis switches. At school, I liked the idea of themes because it can still result in many different drawings, but you still retain some control over what you're drawing. Now the second one is pick an object and make a character out of it. This one will boost up your creativity and all you need is right at home, go through your cup boards or even your desk. Began object or foods that you find interesting. Take a few pictures and now create a character based on that. This is a very fun way to create your own prompts and they just need to take a close look around you. And again, you're the one choosing what you're drawing. Tree, user prompt lists. This is one of the easiest ways since you don't even need to come up with anything, just look up some prompts on wine and draw what awards tell you. You can even be as creative as you want. Let's say the word is heads. You can draw a simple character wearing a hat. Or what about a character that Is a heads that are many ways to tackle it? And that's why it's so much fun for this class. And to help you out, I'll leave you a small list of prompts. Just unload it and choose a prompt. And if you want, you can use one of the other methods or come up with your own prompts. Once you have chosen a prompt, you're ready to start drawing. So I will do the same and I will see you in the next video. 3. From Prompt To Character!: Hello and welcome back. So now that we have some prompts, and hopefully you chose one that you want to draw. It's time to brainstorm some ideas and start sketching out our kit. So I decided to go with galaxy. This is my prompt for my character. And before I start drawing, it's good to think of a few words that remind you of the prompts. So for example, here, I'm going to say space, planets, stars, spaceship. Now these are just some words from the top of my head when I think about a galaxy, what are other words that relate to these main thing? What else? If we have a spaceship, we have astronauts, space planets, and astronauts. We can always also go with alien. This is just a few words, of course, I can spend some time thinking about this. What are the words? Remind me of galaxy, but it's good to be a bit controlled with this or else we're going to start to lose ourselves in the theme. And it's going to be hard to think about a character with so many words in here, I will recommend to at least write three words that relate to it. I want you to write this down because sometimes it's easier for us to write things down in the place where we can always look at. And once we do this, I like to go ahead and draw some things that are related to this word. So for example, we got planets, right? Let's draw a little planet here, one with the ring, just small sketches. So I have a little bit of a visual cue of our care to this. This will help me out thinking about my character. Start with simple things, just a small drawing of the words that you just thought about. So let me see, we got the stars, right, small stars right here. I always like to draw stars. It's really cute to do them both share maybe an alien spaceship. What else we got the astronauts, right? So let's make enough astronauts in. So you see I have here some small drawings and this is giving me some ideas already. For example, I liked the idea of an alien with maybe a planet's outfits and not fit inspired on the planet and the rings of them. When you're done with this tiny drawings, it's time to actually start sketching out our character, right? So that's where I'm going to do. I'm going to pick these two concepts, both the alien and the planets. And now I can start sketching out a character. We're going to start very simple, going to draw just a simple body, a stick figure, just like I'm doing here. So we can draw on top of this and have a few ideas. One thing I think I want is big round eyes. I like that idea of aliens write those big eyes weekend my exam, weird-looking years. I mean, it's an alien. How can we do this? Let's try something like this. Alright, so we've got here a bit of a face. I like these little things that come out of the head. This is also a very vintage look to it. So I think I'm going to add maybe just one. All right, now, I talked about an outfit inspired and planets. So how can we do this? We can start with maybe a dress. Skirts is very round, something like this. Now we want to incorporate the ring somehow, so we can do that through accessories, bracelets, some patterns to the skirt perhaps. See, I'm just drawing things, seeing what happens. And I'm going to draw some boots. And again, a ring is a very rough sketch. I'm going to add the hands here. And since she's an alien, I'm going to take advantage of it. And instead of drawing a whole hand, I'm going to give her three fingers. That is it, true fingers. And now I have much less trouble with my character. This is an option. One good thing to do is to not go with your first option right away. Try out different things. I'm going to go ahead and try the thing. I'm not focusing on pulse right now. I'm just thinking about character looks. Right. Now. What can we do this time? We can use the planet shape IDA and mix it together with the astronauts. We draw here an astronaut helmet. Now for outfits, I liked the idea of the boots with the rings. Now we can grab the sweet idea and go with something like that as well. For a very vintage looking sort and obviously not a suit you would want to wear in space. I could imagine that my character is a space traveler. They are looking for new planets. Maybe she's pretending she's an alien that time so that other beings that she finds, find her a little bit more friendly. I like this idea. I'm liking this idea and I can still use the rings idea, the planet rings idea to some areas of the suits. Even go into something like this. Now this would obviously be not the most practical suits, but that's not what you're looking for here. We're looking for fun looking designs and having fun with our drawings. So this is it. I like this a lot. So you see, I've started with something more alien, like I am trying to do something. And if you see even my sketch from the first one to the second is much better because I wonder a little bit. So it's good for you to take some time. In this part. Just do some sketches. It have some fun, work out different ideas you never know what you came up with when you start one sketch, you start getting another idea. So try out a few ideas and see what you like. For me. I'm going with this space travel idea. It wasn't something I had in mind at first. I was thinking of going with an alien character, but as I went, I prefer this idea best and get you started farming on my head, I sketch out and I really like how it's looking. So again, start with writing some words, just like we did here. Once you do that, draws small drawings like we did right here. And once you've got those drawings down, you probably going to have a few ideas for your kiddos. Just start to have visualizing your character and do some sketches of that. Do not worry too much about, about pulse right now. But if you want to go ahead and try out some poses as well. So this is the one I'm going with. Follow me to the next video where we're going to clean up our character. Take your time with this phase. Have fun, and when you're ready, meet me in the next video. 4. Cleaning Up Your Drawing (Sketching): All right, Hello and welcome back fellow artists. I hope you had fun sketching out characters. Remember there's no wrong way to go about it. Just have fun. Use your sketch messy, that's fine. We're going to clean everything up right now. Also, you might want to change some things in this phase. So this is a perfect opportunity for it. So right now, I'm going to go ahead. I have here my sketch of the character I chose. If you remember, well, I had two options of characters and I decided to go with a space traveler. I'm going to add some transparency to my layer. Now, if you're doing these traditionally, I would advise you to make a new sketch, but to keep your pencil very light. And then on top, you can make a more refined sketch just like we're doing in here, just like what we're going to do in here. However here we are going to use different layers. So additionally, you're going to have to draw on top of your first sketch. There's another way you can do this. You can use some vegetable or architects paper, put it on top of your first sketch and draw on debt. That's also an option in that way, you won't ruin your original sketch. So let's do this. I added some conspiracy and non-point to add a layer on top. Now, I don't want to draw my final lines yet. I want to refine this sketch a little bit more. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick a darker color. And now I'm going to grab my pencil again. And now I'm going to go over all my lines again, but refine things a little bit more. I might want to change the pose a little bit. For example, we got our helmet right here. I'm drawing that kind of aquarium like helmets. I'm going to add more details. So here I said that there's sewage is a little bit changed, so it looks a bit more friendly to other species they might find around. And I'm going to reshape their heads a little bit. She has a cap of fitted cap on her head, similar to something that swimmers will use. So we don't see her head. It's very rare for me to not draw hair on the character. First simple face. Let's start with round eyes. Simple but cute. There we go. Our character's face. Now, I'm going to move this a little bit below. So as you can see, I'm taking my time here to refine my character. Find out how I want her to look like. As you can see, I'm going over my sketch, my original sketch, and refining things a little bit more. I want to appear like she's floating a little bit. So maybe I will draw her legs in a bit of a different position, something more like this. There we go. Same thing with her arms. I think I'm going to move them a little bit. I'm going to draw the rings. This is not a practical suits will probably be a nightmare, but I don't know. Let's say that maybe this helps out navigate in space. When you're floating in space, it will help you out. Now the boots, same thing, right? That's what we talked about. So this is exactly my usual process when going over new characters, even if I'm not using a prompt, this is mostly my process. I'm going to pick different concepts and I'm going to play with them until I find a fun design that I'm happy about and want to drop. So now all I'm missing is the hens. I decided to go with these pits on the helmet to matter look friendly for other elements. You might pick up the same idea and draw some blokes. That's appear like she has three fingers. This way. I am using both ideas. I am still keeping some ideas from my first drawing that I did in the previous video. That is also something you can do. You don't need to discard everything about a drawing. You can keep some of the ideas and use them as inspiration for your final design. There we go. This is it. So as you can see, it's very different. The concept is the same, but it looks very different from the first sketch, doesn't it? Here's a side-by-side of my sketch, of my first sketch. And now the final one, much more refined. Everything is cleaned up. 5. Cleaning Up (Final Lines!): And now I am ready to draw some final lines. Now, if you're doing this traditionally, now is a time we're going to pick your fine liners, your pen, wherever you choosing, and you're going to draw your final lines. Now, what we're going to do is go over all, go over our drawing and draw some clean and final lines, some more Refund lines because this is still a sketch right? Now, I'm going to go ahead and add some transparency. Again. I'm going to add a new layer on top. I'm on Clip Studio Paint. And notice that I chose the second icon here, and this means that I'm creating a vector layer. What does this mean? It means that whatever is inside this layer is going to be a vector. Now, without entering into too many technical terms here, what it means in practice when you're drawing in a vector layer is that you can edit this layer as much as you want without losing any quality of the lines. So I can resize things, I can move things around and the quality will always stay the same. So this is very helpful when you're trying some lineups. So if you're using Clip Studio Paint and you want to draw your eye, it would files to use. If you use affects your layer. There are other drawing softwares that have this same option and if not, that's fine as well. Work as you are used to. It's perfectly fine and now it's time to draw the lines. Now, I might speed up some parts here. So this isn't borrowing because I'm just willing line art as you can see, I'm just going over all my lines. Take your time. Don't be afraid of repeating our lines is perfectly fine. And you'll see that I will do the same thing in quite a lot of times is my favorite parts. So I really like to take my time with it. But in general, I do recommend for you too, is that it's a really fun phase. If you don't finish this up today, you finish tomorrow. The next day or the next ordinate. What matters is that you are having fun with the whole process. Now, while you're doing this, final lines can add some extra details that you might find interesting. Just remember while you're drawing cubed or lines most n log try to avoid going like this unless this is a stylistic choice. That's also fine. Of course, if you want them more messy look. That is perfectly fine. But I know that some people have a little bit of trouble when they're doing their lines and they're a bit Tremblay. And a good way to do is instead of going very slowly with them, this is going to make your life a little bit harder. Go ahead and be confident in your lines and draw smooth, long lines just like this. This goes both for traditional art and digital art. Really liking how this is looking. This is a very fun part of drawing with prompts is that you never know what you're going to end up with. You have no idea at first, you're just given a word. And now you've got to experiment and see what's going to happen. You're going to let your imagination do its work. And it's really, really fun. And there we go. I think we are finished with our care to look at it. I loved. Alright, so we got first sketch, first idea right here. This was the sketch that we started with. Then we will find things a little bit more, adding more detail, giving it the final touches, right, the final design. And finally, we have a clean version with some line art with to cut time. Remember to take your time, go step-by-step. Don't rush this and have lots of fun when you're done with this step. Follow me to the next video where we're going to talk about colors. I will see you right there. 6. How To Choose Colors For Your Character (Resources): Hello and welcome back. Now that we drew our character, There's only one thing missing, color. There are many ways to choose colors for your characters. For example, you might already have an idea of which colors makes sense for the character you just created and can start adding them. But if you have no idea for preferred to have some help with it, I got some ideas for you. First one, find some color palettes online, go to Pinterest.com and simply search for color palettes. You'll have lots of results and I'm sure something will pick your interests. It's good to follow a theme or to choose something that you feel makes sense for your kids. For example, for me, I won't color set reminders of space. That's exactly what I'm going to search for. Space color palettes. So you can either look up for a random palette or search for something more specific that is on team with your character. My second recommendation is to generate random palettes and choose one that you like. I really liked this website, coolers.com. This website will generate different color palettes for you to use. I especially like to use this website when I have absolutely no idea what colors to use, just press degenerate button until you find something you like. This is a very good exercise to understand and use color better. Since you had no plans beforehand, you now have to adapt and combine the colors to your drawing. What should be my primary color? How am I going to use them without overlapping the same color and in a way where everything looks balanced, using a random palettes will help you figure out these things while having fun. And now Leslie, you can use specific color schemes. Here. You'll have to choose your own colors. However, you do it by following a system that will guarantee you have the harmonious and balanced palette. Here are a few examples that are perfect for beginners. The monochromatic scheme here you choose one color and that's what you'll be working with. But Fred, not because you have a big range of tones in such just one column. This is one of my favorites and very easy to use. Next we have the analogous scheme. Here. You'll pick three adjacent colors in your color wheel like this. Again, you have different tones inside the scholar, so you can pick something more or less saturated to keep things more interesting. Finally, we have the famous complimentary color scheme. Pick one color on the color wheel. Now your second color is going to be on the exact opposite side of the wheel. Now you have a great combination of two colors to use in your cats. This one is very easy to use and it doesn't matter the combination, the colors will always work very well together. Now if you're up for it a bit more of a challenge. Here are a few more color schemes for you. We have the triadic scheme where you choose colors that are evenly distanced from each other, just like this, the split complimentary, where you choose one color and look at the complimentary. But instead of picking that one, split it, and use the two colors that are adjacent to it. And finally, we have the two triadic scheme, also known as double complimentary, where we pick two pairs of opposing colors and there we go, You now have different and interesting ways for choosing colors for your character. Choose one of these methods, or pick your own colors. I'll be doing the same and we'll meet in the next video. 7. Coloring Your Character The Easy Way: All right, Hello and welcome back. So here we are. I have right here the drawing after character I created based on the prompt galaxy. And they also have here the colors I found and lights. So these are the colors that I'm going to use. Now, remember, if and if you have a five color palette, you don't need to use all of these scholars, these are just inspiration or for reference. You can even change the tones a little bit if you think it makes more sense with that, out of the way, we are ready to start coloring. Now, we're going to do this in a very easy way. If we're doing this traditionally, grab your markers, your paints, and start coloring in. Just follow your usual process. And have fun with this. If you're doing this digitally, I'm going to show you a way that you can the colors to your character very easily and very quickly. This will work for most digital software. Let's do this. First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to create a layer below my lines. So this layer is where my lines are. So let's just write here, why not? I created a layer below. Now I'm going to grab my paint bucket and I'm going to choose the second option right here that says refer to other layers. Again, you have the same option on other drugs software, so you can use this. And now I'm going to go in and start adding my colors. So basically, what this is doing is the paint bucket will fill in color while having into account my lines. It won't go over and line as long as they are closed and they're going to fill up only with that. Tell them to. And now I can just go in and start adding my colors here and there. Just using my paint bucket. There we go. Now, as you can see very quickly and instantly, I managed to fill my drawing with some color. It's not perfect. You see there are some places missing in there. And I'm going to use my brush for that it before that, I just wanted to show you another method that you can use for the colors. Let's say you do not have the option of the paint bucket referred to other layers. What you can do is go right here to your selection tool. And you have selection tool in any drawing software, and you pick the lasso tool. Now, you can go ahead. Go through your lines like this. If you have trembling hands like I do, it's going to be a little bit harder, but you can do this. There we go. We pick the paint bucket, we paint inside our selection and we have our character colors. This is another option. Use the pen tool and select things. You can also, if you do not want to use the lasso tool, you can pick your magic one and start selecting things. So I selected here a bit. Now, if I click Shift, you'll see that the plus sign appears on my tool. Just keep pressing Shift and select everything you want to select. Pick up your paint bucket and now go for your coloring layer and start. I'm adding the column C. This is another very quick way for you to add color for your color choke character. You don't need to manually paint everything. You can make a few selections and then use the paint bucket to fill in all the colored. These are my two preferred methods. I usually go with just the paint bucket referring to other layers. But if I don't have that option, That's how I do. I will just use my geometric warm or my lasso tool. Select what I want to color and then use my paint bucket. Now, I'm going to go in and fill in every bit that is missing. Take your time with this bar to donate to rush shirts. I guarantee you that the whole experience of drawing will be much more enjoyable. We are mostly done. I have added color to all my curtain very, very quickly and very few minutes. Now, I'm going to go ahead and add my last details. I want that little bit of shining eyes. My eyes. There we go. And I'm also going to add some color to the helmet. I'm going to go right ahead. Add some transparency to it. Now. We go, This is better. And now I'm going to add a little bit of highlights to the helms. There we go. That is done. And I'm pretty much done with my kids. Now. I can do just one little thing. I didn't want her to be floating here in white background. So I'm going to add a very simple background. You can do this very easily in any of your drawings if you want to add the background, but you don't like to do it or I think it's too hard. You can do it by just picking here. I'm going to pick a shape. I'm going to go with a rectangle. You can go with whatever shape you might want. Let's try here are darker color. Now I'm going to draw square. There we go. We have the background. I'm going to darken it even more. So just this is more than enough. You have the background, you think you can do a background. You can see, it's very easy. Believe me, you can draw backgrounds for your curves. Now. I'm going to go right ahead and add some stars to it. New layer. She's in space, so she needs some steps. You can make a rectangle, you can make a circle. Circles also work very well for backgrounds. And there we go. We have a complete character. We started with a simple words. I chose galaxy, a very simple words, and we ended up with a full drawing of a full character. You can come up with it story for your character if you want. If not, that's fine as well. But what matters is that you have a character, you picked a word and ended up with a character. I think this is a very fun way of drawing new characters and coming up with new characters. So this is my process of creating a character by using a prompt towards Don't go yet. Follow me to the next video where we're going to talk about your assignments. So I will see you right there. 8. Your Turn! Step By Step: Hello again, artists. It's time for some practice. If you've been following along with the course, you should have a complete character created by now. So share it with me. If you don't have a finished sketch yet, that's fine. You can post your progress so far and I'll give you feedback if you want. I'm here to help you. If you haven't started drawing it, then now's the time to go through each step that we did in the videos. Start by finding fun drawing prompts and choose one. If you haven't yet, don't forget to download the print list I gave you to help you out. Then brainstorm some sketches. Start with simple ideas and grow from there. Once that's done, clean up your character. Now that everything is decided and you're happy with your character, it's time to draw some final lines. And Leslie color your character. Just choose some colors and add them to your drawing. Keep it simple and have fun with it. Once you're done. Don't forget to post your Curtis. I can't wait to see them. And that's it. I hope you've been enjoying this course. Just stick with me a bit longer for a few parting words. And I will see you in the next video. 9. UPDATE! Project 2: Brainstorming & References: Hello again and welcome. We're going to create another character but with a different prompt. The process is going to be very similar as before. But this time I'm also going to talk a bit about references and mood boards. These are going to be very helpful when you want to create a new character based on a prompt word. First things first, let's brainstorm or prompt a bit for this one, I'm going to go with the candy prompt. The first thing I think about it is Halloween, chocolate and sweet. These are the first words that come to me when I think about candy. Remember, you don't need to spend a whole lot of time here. Something 3-6 words is enough to help you form an idea. Let's add a few more words that are not as directly related to candy. For example, shiny because of the wrappers. Children, we all love candy, but we associate the words with children system Micrave candy the most Finally, energy for the sugar rush. Okay, we managed to brainstorm a few ideas and concepts for our character. I'm thinking about drawing a character who's a child, maybe on Halloween. They could be disguised as a candy, for example. But before we start drawing, let's first gather a few references to help us visualize our character better. We can go on pints, for example. Here you can create different boards for anything you want or need. We could create a candy board and gather a few images related to the words which you start of. Another option is to just go to Google itself or stock photo websites such as Splash. You can also take your own photos if you want. Now, after finding some references, I usually like to create a moodboard for my characters. This moodboard should include everything related to the character I'm drawing. For example, the age, outfits, hairstyles, places, access stories, and even colors. This helps me visualize my character, even if I won't draw exactly what's in the pictures. It helps with imagining what my character would look like. After finding a few good references, I'll save them to a folder and then open them in clip studio plant. Now all I have to do is organize everything in one image. Like I'm doing. This doesn't need to look super perfect or organized just enough so you can see all the images together. Be also careful to not go overboard with the images in your moodboard. Too many images and you might get a bit lost and over well, make a good selection before grouping everything together. Around seven to ten images can be enough. All right, my mood board is finished. These are the references and inspiration I'll be using for my candid character. It's now time to sketch a few ideas. I will see you in the next video. 10. Project 2: Sketching The Character: Hello and welcome back. I have here file open, a new file. We made a moodboard, as you can see here. Now it's time to sketch our character. Using this moodboard as a visual reference. I have around three ideas and I'm going to sketch those ideas. For example, when I see the candy corn right here, I don't know, I like the shape, I like the color. I thought, hey, what if I did a kid that is dressed as a candyicorn on Halloween? Let's sketch that. You don't need to make it too big, so I'm going to draw the shape of our candy corn. Right? Something like this. It's divided in three colors, right here. Now I'd say the ice will go around here. We have a few cuts in the costume, just so you can see the ice. Then the arms right here. Some holes for the arms as well, and then we can drop the arms. Going to make very small and thin arms. I'm going to make them hold a bucket for the candy, and you can have a few candy popping out right there. Maybe this might be a bit the arms that are way too long for a child, let's make them shorter like this. Now, this is just a sketch, so don't worry about things being messy and a bit out of the way, like I just moved here and there are a ton of lines that we don't want to see there, But that's fine, because this is just a sketch. We will clean everything later on to make them have a cute pose, something like this. They might be wearing some stockings like this, a very simple outfit. This is idea number one. Idea number two, I saw with the tea bag this costume and I thought it was really cute. Then I saw this one, the girl dressed as a strawberry. As you can see, I have here an image of the strawberry candy that you see a lot. I thought, well, why don't I combine these two? I think this is a very cute costume and we can do something similar, something between these two using the wrapper of the strawberry candy. That's what I'm going to do. I want a happy pose like this girl right here. I'm going to go here to the side and I'm going to draw my girl first. I'm going to draw very simply the body arms stretched to the side. As you can see, I'm not worrying too much about the anatomy right now. I just want to have the base just a quick body so I know what I can do. There we go. This will be this area of our strawberry wrapper, and I see that the green goes into that area. I'm going to draw that as well, something like this. We can add texture wrapping texture later on, but for now, let's keep it simple. Now, I'm going to draw the head a little bit higher than we had previously. There we go. Now I can make the wrap thing right here. There we go. Now for the hair, let me just, yeah, she's really happy about her costume. She's probably wearing a shirt because we don't want to be wearing short sleeves in the winter or autumn. Right. For the hair. I really like this hair. Do and the Halloween hair, do we have right here? I'm going to try that. Something similar with ghosts, something like this. We have the wrappers, right? We can make it strawberry as well, With the greens and reds. Okay, I'm going to try something else with this one. I just want to draw another hair, for example, let's say. So she's dressed as a candy strawberry, right? What if I, what if I went ahead and drew her head a bit differently, like the green parts of the strawberry? So instead of the hair going like this, we could have the hair going like this, The hair bands in red or something like that. I think that would look very cute as well. Now let's go for the third idea. So we have the candy corn costume, which is really cute. I might try also this one with this pose. But for the third idea, I thought, what if we made a costume where the child is wearing a dress that is filled with candy? Again, it will be very simple costume. I mean, children like to be able to move, right? We have to think of simple things that you can wear while going. Trick or tricking. There we go. We have a very simple body here. Let's see. We can make the dress cute still, right? I'm going with a short sleeve like this and a very simple dress but quite long. And then we can have a shirt underneath it. She doesn't get, there we go. And then basically there would be candy glued to the costume with a crown made of candy as well. That will be quick cues. Some breaks, there we go. This could work as well. Or we can even make the dress like this. Instead of going straight down a little bit of a balloon there, we have even more space for our candy. I'm just going to make small circles. I know what I want, right? Candy and candy comes in different shapes, so we can be a bit more creative with those later. Now we're just gathering some ideas. This is what we have. Three different ideas. I think they are all very cute. Some simpler than others. The candy corn costume is very simple. There's not a lot to draw here, right? It's a very valid idea as well. Of course you can be very simple with your drawings. Then we have the strawberry suit, the strawberry candy suite that I really, really like. It's a mix of, there's a bit more detail, but it's still quite simple, right? Then we have the candy dress which has much more detail. When choosing the final version here is really totally up to your taste. What you think is closer to the idea you had at first reason. For me, I like simpler designs. I think I'm going to go with our candy girl, right here with our strawberry candy girl. I think it's a cute dress, acute costume. Simple enough, but also interesting, this is the one I'm going to choose. You can take your time in this sketching phase. For example, here I only did three ideas, because you don't need to be watching this for a long time, right? But you can sketch more than this. Just remember to be very loose with the sketches and not focus on details. You can focus on the details later. Once you're ready, follow me to the next video where we're going to add more detail to our character and finish it. I'll see you there. 11. Project 2: Cleaning Up The Character: Right? Hello, and welcome back. So I created a new file added. The character I chose or the idea I chose for our character based on the prompt candy. The size of the canvas you're using is totally up to you. I like to use squared canvas, but you can do whatever you like, what you're used to and what you prefer. And what we're going to do right now is add a bit more detail to our sketch, right? We have a very rough sketch, but now we want to clean things a little bit and add all those details that might be missing and that you don't want to forget about while drawing while making the final lines of your getter. I'm going to go here to my rough sketch layer. You can name your layers and you should, so you don't forget which is which you could name this sketch layer. Then I'm going to add a new layer on top. Next, I'm going to go for my pencil brush Again, it's the brush I like to use for sketching, but choose anything you're comfortable with. I'm going to change the color a bit. Instead of bright red, I'm going for a darker red. Again, this is totally up to your own preferences. This is the way I generally go about. With that done, we're going to start going through our sketch and add more detail. Clean things up a little. Go start with the head. That's generally the place I like to start, but every artist is different. Explore that as well. Art is all about exploration and finding out new things that you like to do with your art. So we have here ahead. Now I'm going to draw her fringe, make it have a bit of a strawberry look, right? I'd like to draw them very big like this. Now spiky here we have that all strawberry look on her character. Again, this is still a time where you can make mistakes and you don't need to be perfect as you draw. Don't worry too much. This is still a time for exploration of your character. Now let's draw the rapper area, right? I'm going to erase here the shin and then the rest of the dress. Take the opportunity to add a little bit of texture here. Not too much, just a little. The green triangles right here, like we saw on the p. Now for the arms, they've come up out of here. I'm going to simplify the shapes a lot. The shirt striped as we did in our first sketch. Now I'm going to make exhibit quicker. I'm going to copy and paste this arm, transform it and flip it horizontally and bring it to the other side that we go this way. It's a bit easier and don't have to be drawing a whole arm all over again. Let's go for the legs. I talked about that. I wanted to recreate that pose of the candy corn costume. Remember that one of the, one of the legs is up in the air while the other is on the floor? I'm going to try and do that. I might have to change our dress here a little bit. As you can see, I'm still being very loose with my drawing here. I am still not taking things too seriously yet. I'm still experimenting. I'll get into serious modes once we start drawing our final lines. Don't forget the strawberry seeds right here Now, what kind of shoes should she be wearing? I have to shorten this area a little bit. I'm not happy about this, something a bit more like this. Now, I'm going to move ahead a little bit because I feel portion is not totally right. Going to draw our face some freckles. I think that could work well with the seeds of the strawberry. And then we can make like the socks or the stockings in green, or well, whatever color we have, we get, but something that is the same color as a costume. Everything is balanced. Let me just hide here our rough sketch, so we can take a good look at how our character is looking like. This is it. This is my character. Now, I'm just going to take this chance and as a bit more to our character, I don't know, like some pumpkins here and there, a bit of scenery in our drawing. You don't need to add a lot of things, but sometimes just adding a small bit of scenery, just a bit more details can add a bit more to your drawing. Even though the idea is to draw a character, a bit of a background, let's say, to accompany your characters, just so she's not all alone in the drawing. This is it, this is my character. This is the final sketch. Now what I'm going to do is clean up the sketch. What does that mean? I'm going to do the final line out for that, I'm going to go ahead and load the opacity of this layer. Then I'm going to create a new but this time vector layer on top. Now if you're using Clip Studio for this or there are other Softwa that have the same option is the vector layer. And what it means is whatever I draw in here, I can resize, edit, or transform it as much as I want and I won't lose any quality in my lines. Everything I'm drawing here is in a vector format. Let's say. This can be really useful because when drawing the line art, chances are you're going to change a lot of things along the way. This way you don't have to worry about losing quality in your lines and having to redraw them again. But you can use a normal layer. This is just the way I usually do and I'm sharing it with you now. I'll go grab another brush, a pen brush in disguise. Again, totally up to you what kind of brush you're using. I'm going to select the black here and I'm going to start doing my lineup. You're basically just going through each line of your previous sketch, but give it a more clean, less messy look. I'm going to fast forward this part a little bit because I don't need to see me doing the whole line art. It takes a little bit of time. I'll see you once the line art is done. Here we are, the lines are finished. Next, we're going to add some color, just like we did previously. Follow me to the next video where we're going to talk just a little bit about color again and then we're going to color our cart. I will see you right there. 12. Project 2: Choosing Colors For Your Character: Hello and welcome back. We finished drawing our characters, so now it's time to color them. We previously talked about different ways to find and choose colors. You can use specific color harmonies, such as complimentary triadic, or find random palettes on pintros, coolers, or pigments. For this one, I'll go on coolers and see what I can get. Using random palettes can be quite fun since you never know what you'll find. It's also a fun challenge to then grab those random colors and organize them in your drawing. We have to think what's the best way to use them? Everything looks harmonious and interesting. Which color will be the protagonist and which are going to be secondary? You can even try different combinations of the same colors. Once you find something you like and that fits your character, go for a few quick and rough tests like this. Then it's time to color our character properly. Maybe even include a few shadows and highlights. 13. Project 2: Coloring Your Character: All right, we looked up for colors, then we made a few tests. Now it's time to color our actual characters. Now I'm going to choose one of these options of the color tests ideas and then finish my character. I really like the versions with the red hair. Now I'm not so sure if I should go with the one that has a bit more black or less. I think I'm still going to try. I'm going to go with this one with the greens and change the pumpkins to red like I have in here. I'm going to mix both of these, and then I'll see if I rather have the black stripes or I have here my color tests. I'm going to move this a little bit, it won't interfere with my actual drawing right now. We're going to color our character. And a very easy way to do this is by going here. First, we're going to go to our layer. We have here the layer with our lines. Right? We're going to create a new layer below our lines. I'm going to go over here and create new layer. Now what we're going to do is we're going to use the paint bucket to color our whole drawing. I'm going to go here to the paint bucket and then we're going to choose the option that says for other layers, what happens is, since it's in another layer, the paint packet will have into account those other layers. This makes the whole coloring process much faster. If you have a very simple coloring style, this is a way you can do this. Most drawing software have this option, look up for it, and coloring will become much more faster than before I have the paint packet. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start picking the colors and dropping on my drawing. I have the red already picked. Yes. And so we're going to add the red to the red areas. There are a few gaps as you can see, you can change that in the settings, but I'm going to go back to it later. Since it's easier, I'm going to try to make the pumpkins right as well as we have in the other example. Now, I'm going to pick up here, the darker green For the legs. For the legs. And our stripes here, here, here, here, and here. These are also green, right? Oh, I forgot the red for the tongue here. And let's go ahead and use the black here for the back of the mouth. Now, we're going to grab the light green and add to the places that is missing on her costume. It's here. This area? Yeah. Let's try the light green for now on the sleeves. And finally, there we go. We filled all the colors. Now, I'm just going to grab my pen again and fix whatever needs fixed. Don't forget if you're using the coloring method, there's something to pay attention to is that your lines need to be connected. There can't be any gaps in your lines. Otherwise, when pin packet fills with color, it will fill the whole canvas. Because there's a little bit of a gap between the lines. Pay attention to that. When you're doing the lineup, be sure that all your lines are properly connected so you don't have that problem. That part is done. I'm going to add just a square of background. I'm going to try that. We're going to paint now that bit of floor and background. Now we're going to lower the opacity, something like this. Just so we have a little bit of color there. Now, I'm going to add a new layer and paint the floor very quickly. Now, since I painted the floor and the background in different layers, I can make here a few tests and change the colors a little bit. For example, I can try the green, see if I like it best. Let's try and do the same here with our background. I think the background looks better in green. Now let's try back with the brown. Yeah, I think this works. We have all the main colors down, but I'm missing the seeds on our costume. Let's add those. It looks better. Now, you can leave it like this or you can add just a little bit more of detail, a little bit more pieces to your drawing, which is a few shadows and highlights. We can do this very simply. I'm just going to hide here, my colors just so they're not in the way. What we're going to do is we're going to create a layer between our shadows. And the line up going to go right here, create new layer. Now I'm going to lower the opacity a bit. Around 50% is usually good enough. Now I'm going to change the blending mode to multiply. Finally, I'm going to go right here where it says clip to layer below. So I'm going to create a clipping mask. Basically activate that or enable that. Now when I add some paint, it won't go outside the already colored area. As you can see, this makes things a bit easier and you don't have to worry about going over the lines. What we have to do here now is pick up the colors, the base colors we have, and then draw in the shadows. Just choose where your light is coming from. For example, if the light is coming from the left, then your shadows are on the right. On the other hand, if the light is coming from the right, then the shadows are going to be on the opposite side. That's usually the idea. Just choose where the light is coming from and the shadows are going to be on the opposite way. There we go. I picked the red and I'm now creating some shadows. It doesn't need to be a whole lot of it. Just a, just to add a little bit extra to our drawing. Nothing much. Let's do all the reds first. Nothing too detailed, but you see immediately some difference, right? It already gives our drawing a different life. All right, Now, for the green, the darker green, as you can see, I'm not too worried about going out of the lines because this is a clipping mask and is referring to my colors below whatever it is in the layer below. There's immediately a bit of a difference when you add some shadows. We can also go here and do the same for the floor. Just add a bit of shading, nothing much, around 50% of opacity. The amount of opacity you add to the drawing is totally up to you. It really depends on how much contrast to you want in your drawing. Like to have very soft shadows, but if you want more, you can go ahead and make it more opaque. There we go. Very simple as you can see. I'm not really going overboard with this, but I think it does change things a bit and make things more interesting. That's just one last thing we can add to our drawing, which is the highlights. I think the highlights will go very well in here since we talked about the shiny word for when we were brainstorming our prompt, the candy prompt. And I talked about being shiny because of the wrappers. And I think we should add that to her costume right here. For that, I'm going to go over here. I have my shadows layer selected here. And I'm going to create a new layer above, not going to add any blending mode to it. All I'm going to do is I'm going to rub my brush. Then I'm going to pick, for example, here, the red, and then make it much brighter, almost white. Yeah, I'm going to add a bit of highlights here and there. Now, remember when I said that with the shadows, you choose the light source, the direction of the light source, and then the shadows are always drawn on the opposite side, right? With the highlights, it's the opposite, the highlights are going to be on the same side as your light source. This is a very easy way to remember. Obviously, it's a very simplistic way of doing it, and shading and highlighting is much more complex than that. But to start with it, I think it's a good method to use and a good way to memorize those things. Now I'm going to go over here and just a stroke here and there, adding a bit of highlights for the wrapper. There we go. Now let's do the same thing with the green and make it almost white. And here, some shining here and there we know that she's dressed as some sort of candy. So there we go. I'm going to keep it very simple. Like this, I think this is it. We started with a very simple prompt word, candy. We brainstorm a beit to start having a few ideas. Then we went for some references and created a mood board so we have a more visual idea of what we want and what could work with our character. And then we tested out a few ideas. Write sketches, different sketches, trying out different ideas, seeing out what we like best. We chose one and finished our drawing. This is it, this is my candy character. Don't forget to show me your assignment if you have it, have fun with your prompt. Take your time and I'll see you. 14. Before You Go, Thanks!: Hello artists, congratulations on finishing this class. I'm speeding up this drawing I created in the background, just so you can see my drawing process while I say a few words, I hope you've enjoyed all the videos and have learned quite a bit about turning drawing prompts into characters. Not only that, but you should not be able to more easily find new drawing prompts, brainstorm some ideas, and even color your drawings in the first way. Before you go, I would really appreciate it if you can leave me a review. This really helps me and allows me to keep updating and creating new courses for you. It really makes my day reading all the reviews. I do read every single one of them. Alright, That's about it. Thank you so much for watching and as always, keep on drawing.