If you love drawing people but struggle with adding personality, expression and story to your character illustrations, this class is for you! Throughout this class you'll learn how to draw expressive gestures and body language in order to illustrate emotions and relationships with your characters' poses and interactions.
We'll work primarily in digital illustrating tool Procreate, but feel free to follow along with your favourite materials.
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Throughout the class we’ll cover:
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<li>How to understand and convey body language through your drawings</li>
<li>Creating expressive character poses from imagination</li>
<li>Drawing hand gestures</li>
<li>Illustrating facial expressions</li>
<li>Communicating character relationships and interactions</li>
<li>Illustrating an emotive, stylised scene from start to finish</li>
</ul>
We’ll kick off with several exercises to practice key techniques, sketching from both imagination and observation to drawing hand gestures and facial expressions. Then we’ll bring all these skills together in our class project to create an emotive illustration with two characters interacting.
This class is for anyone who wants to improve their body language, character interaction and storytelling skills, and is already competent at designing and posing characters. If you’ve taken my previous course, <a href="https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Drawing-People-Creating-Unique-and-Dynamic-Character-Poses-in-Procreate/595513472" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Drawing People: Creating Unique and Dynamic Character Poses in Procreate</a>, then you’ll be able to level up your skills in this class. If you are a beginner then I would recommend that you take my <a href="https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Drawing-People-Creating-Unique-and-Dynamic-Character-Poses-in-Procreate/595513472" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Drawing People</a> class before this one.
I’ll be using my iPad Pro with Procreate in my demonstrations but you can use whatever software or medium you’re most comfortable drawing with. 
When it comes to creating the class project, you'll also need a couple of character designs to draw from, so feel free to use existing designs from your portfolio or create totally new ones for the project.
I look forward to seeing you in class!
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Want to brush up on your character illustration basics? Check out my beginner friendly Drawing People class here:
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Special thanks to <a href="https://www.skillshare.com/user/diujdi" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Di Ujdi</a> for her guidance and support throughout the making of this class.

Introduction

 Class Overview

 Understanding Body Language

Exercise: Flour Sacks

Exercise: Observational Drawing

Exercise: Facial Expressions

Exercise: Hand Structure

Exercise:  Hand Gestures

Exercise:  Stick Figure Poses

Project: Character Designs and Story

Project:  Initial Character Sketches

Project:  Thumbnail Sketches

Project: Refining The Sketch

Project: Linework

Project: Colouring

Project: Details

Project: Texture & Final Touches

Final Thoughts & Thank You

Bonus:  Timelapse Replay

Hand Gesture Reference Photos.zip

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Character Illustration: Drawing Expressive Gestures & Poses in Procreate

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