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Character Design Art Camp (Ages 12-18)

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

Start Dates (0) $600/person

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Class Description

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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