Learn how to create expressive, balanced, and professional-looking illustrations using shape language in digital art - one of the most powerful design principles for beginners and illustrators alike.

In this class, we’ll explore how circles, triangles, and rectangles can completely transform your characters and give your drawings personality, story, and emotion.

Through simple step-by-step lessons, you’ll discover how to use basic shapes to build strong foundations in your artwork and how to apply this knowledge to design your own charming animal characters.

What You’ll Learn

We’ll go through three creative stages to understand how shape language works:

Level 1: Redesign a simple body into three base shapes - a circle, a triangle, and a rectangle.
Level 2: Fit an animal into one of these shapes to explore posture and visual storytelling.
Level 3: Fully illustrate three animals with shape language guiding every feature and detail.

Then we’ll wrap it up with a fun Shape Language BINGO! 🎨
We’ll randomly select a shape, an animal, and a level to create a spontaneous final illustration - your main class project!

Who This Class Is For

This class is perfect for:

Beginners in digital illustration who want to learn design principles in a fun, easy way
Procreate users who want to improve their character design skills
Illustrators who want to give more personality and storytelling to their art

What You’ll Need

Procreate (or any digital drawing app)
A tablet and stylus

By the end of this class, you’ll understand how to use shape language to design expressive and appealing characters, and you’ll have a full illustration created through your own unique combination of shape, form, and personality.

Let’s bring your illustrations to life - one shape at a time! Are you ready?

See you in class!

WANNA LEARN MORE?

In the Quick Guide To Art Fundamentals For Beginners In Procreate class, you will learn about all the other essential topics! See you there!

Carolyn Smith

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