Character design is a fun way to expand your creativity and practice your drawing skills. In this class, you’ll do just that! Inspired by the famous Animal Crossing video game, you’ll design your very own animal-human hybrid character with chibi proportions! By the end of this course, you’ll see how much fun character design is and learn valuable skills that will help you in future character design projects.

By the end of this course, you will know how to:

Merge human and animal features
Design a character from scratch
Add aesthetic characteristics
Achieve chibi proportions
Explore value with shadows and highlights

Materials:

My demo is drawn digitally using Medibang Paint Pro, but you may use any medium
If you're working traditionally, I recommend pencil, fineliner and coloured pencils
To learn how to use digital techniques, see our lesson: Intro to Digital Art in MediBang

[Character sketch]

[Colouring and shading the character]

Looking to develop your creature design skills further? We would recommend following up with our Cha racter Desig n for Begin ners: Ho w to Dr aw C ute Anim al Huma n Hybrids, which explores unique characteristics of creature design.

Jake Tucker

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