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Character Design Art Camp (Ages 12-18)

Art School of SF Bay

4.8 5 reviews

Unleash your imagination and master the art of character design! Dive into anatomy, gesture, and shape design to bring your creations to life. Explore the secrets behind iconic heroes and villains, and discover what makes them unforgettable.

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12 - 18 years old
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1601 Irving St, San Francisco, CA
32 hours & 30 minutes over 5 sessions

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Description

This course teaches character design from the ground up: starting with fundamentals like anatomy, gesture, and shape design. Students will learn to create original characters from scratch. Bring your sketchbooks or drawing tablets, instruction will be provided for both digital and traditional media!

This camp will teach you:

Designing unique characters using the principle of contrast and exageration
Human and animal anatomy
Consistency of characters
Shading and perspective
Working with color palettes

Detailed Schedule

DAY 1. Realistic Head Drawing

The creative approach for drawing the head and face honest to realistic proportions
Using a reference proper techniques for head drawing
Steps for successful drawing
Relying on simple shapes
How to use a pencil
How to draw individual parts of the head that work in harmony with one another.
The relationship each part of the face has with the other

DAY 2. Stylized head drawing

Use of simple shapes to project more complicated concepts.
Stylized proportions and their relationship to realistic proportions

DAY 3. Realistic human anatomy (male and female)

Proportions in traditional human drawing
Introduction to basic male and female anatomy
Creating bodies in motions
Gesture drawing

DAY 4. Stylized human anatomy

Use of simple shapes to create characters
The limitations of stylized anatomy
Playing with proportions to create new styles

DAY 5. Final project

Creating your own character/ discovering your style

Refund Policy

We do not provide refunds for ongoing classes tuition, courses or camps payments.

However, full credit towards future booking or transfer to another camp/course will be offered for any cancellations made up to 2 business days before the camp or course starts.
Ongoing classes can be canceled with a 31 business days prior notice.

You can make up a missed class on another day when we offer the same age/skill group class. The make-up class should be arranged in advance, no drop-ins. Limit 2 make-up classes per month. Make-up classes are subject to the availability of space in a similar class. We reserve the right not to provide make-up classes or terminate the class enrollment for repeating truancy.

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Art School of SF Bay

The Art School of SF Bay offers creative and approachable classes in representational drawing from nature for kids and adults. Their skilled artists teach traditional disciplines and techniques to help students fully express themselves through art.

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