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Creating Forest Animal Characters
6+ hours that will help you bring forest creatures to life
Creating Forest Animal Characters
🦊 Do you think character design is only for the “naturally creative”?
🦉 Have you believed that creating memorable characters requires years of innate talent?
🐿️ Or that breathing life into animal drawings comes effortlessly to others?
Let me tell you a secret: these are myths!
There’s no magical “creativity gene” or special talent required. The amazing characters you admire are the result of practice, persistence, and passion. That’s the reality!
In This Course, You’ll Learn to Create
- Expressive Forest Animal Characters: Turn foxes, owls, deer, and other creatures into personalities bursting with life.
- Humanized Features: Blend human emotions, gestures, and styles with animal anatomy.
- Compelling Story Elements: Develop characters with depth, purpose, and charm.
- Dynamic Poses and Expressions: Learn to give your creations movement and emotion.
Let’s unlock your potential and bring your ideas to life! Together, we’ll take the journey to craft animal characters that stand out and tell unforgettable stories.
Creating Forest Animal Characters: A Beginner’s Guide to Designing Expressive Animal Personalities!
Are you passionate about art and excited to explore the world of character design? Do you dream of creating unique, expressive animal characters but feel uncertain about where to start? Are you a self-taught artist looking to gain confidence and master foundational techniques?
Designing forest animal characters is a skill that anyone can learn and develop!
I’ve designed this course for artists of all levels—whether you’re an absolute beginner or someone who has dabbled in character design before. Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to transform ordinary animals into captivating personalities by combining human traits with animal anatomy. You’ll explore techniques for creating dynamic poses, expressive faces, storytelling elements, and more!
Let’s turn your artistic passion into a cast of unforgettable characters that showcase your unique voice and creativity!
Hi, I'm Saulo Nate!
I’m a visual development artist, creative director, and character designer based in Philadelphia. I lead my own visual art business, Pixel Grove Studio, where I get to collaborate with amazing teams to create unique and impactful projects.
Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of contributing to incredible studios and productions like Warner Brothers, Disney Lorcana (Ravensburger), Nexus Studios, Made By Things, and The Sandbox game.
When I’m not working on professional projects, you’ll probably find me sketching animals or brainstorming ideas for fantasy worlds—usually with a cup of coffee in hand. I also make time to hit the gym, balancing my creative work with staying active.
My passion for character design runs deep, and I’m thrilled to lead this course. We’ll dive into the fundamentals and creative techniques that bring characters to life, so if you’re passionate about storytelling through design, this journey is for you.
IMAGINE BRINGING YOUR FIRST FOREST CHARACTER TO LIFE...
For so long, you’ve admired other artists and doubted your abilities. You may have thought you weren’t creative enough, but now, you see the growth, dedication, and magic in your work.
How does that make you feel?
Today, you can choose to invest in your passion, imagination, and artistic journey. Investing in yourself is one of the most fulfilling and empowering decisions you can make.
Character design not only improves your artistic skills but also provides a sense of joy and accomplishment. And today, you have the opportunity to take that first, transformative step forward.
In this course, we’ll dive into the fundamentals of character design, explore techniques to humanize animals, and review the essential tools and methods to craft expressive, unforgettable characters. I’ll guide you every step of the way, ensuring that your creative journey is exciting, rewarding, and uniquely yours. 💪🏼
AT THE END OF THE COURSE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
Create Forest Animal Characters
Learn to design expressive and captivating animal characters by blending human traits with animal features. Develop your skills in anatomy, poses, and storytelling, and bring your imaginative creations to life.
Design Forest Animal Characters
Learn essential character design techniques, including anatomy basics, expressive poses, dynamic gestures, and storytelling, to create unique and captivating characters that evoke personality and emotion.
Tell a Story Through Forest Animal Characters
Learn how to use expressions, poses, and personality in your designs to evoke emotion and craft compelling stories, bringing depth and life to your characters.
COURSE CONTENT
The course has 5 modules for 6+ hours of learning and practicing. You can pause and replay the videos as much as you want. The course is suitable for everyone, teens, adults and children because there is no explicit content. It would be best to take the course in order, because it will start from the basics to lessons at a more advanced level.
Practice makes perfect!
IN MY COURSE YOU WILL LEARN:
MODULE 1
Introduction and Foundations
MODULE 2
Building a Character’s Foundation
🦊 Gesture Drawing: Capture movement and personality.
🦊 Sketching Basic Animal Forms: Explore key forms for forest creatures.
🦊 Establishing Character Archetypes: Create roles like the brave, the wise, and the mischievous.
🦊 Simplifying Shapes for Stylization: Translate real forms into stylized designs.
🦊 Thick to Thin, Thin to Thick: Use expressive shapes to add appeal.
MODULE 3
Refining the Character Design
🐻 Refining Sketches: Clean rough sketches into solid foundations.
🐻 Exploring Unique Silhouettes: Make characters recognizable from afar.
🐻 Color Theory for Forest Animals: Choose palettes inspired by nature.
🐻 Enhancing with Details: Add fur patterns, accessories, and facial expressions.
🐻 Finalizing Line Work: Create clean, polished outlines ready for rendering.
MODULE 4
Personality Through Poses and Expressions
🦉 Applying Shadows: Convey personality through body language.
🦉 Rendering Textures and Depth: Add realistic textures like fur, bark, and other forest elements.
🦉 Lighting: Create drama and mood with lighting in your designs.
🦉 Editing a Final Piece: Enhance with highlights, glows, and extra layers of polish.
MODULE 5
Advanced Techniques and Polishing
🐇 Creating a Model Sheet: Establish key angles and expressions for your character.
🐇 Facial Expressions: Bring faces to life, from joy to mischief.
🐇 Animating with a Single Frame: Implied movement in static illustrations.
🐇 Consistency Across Multiple Poses: Maintain a cohesive design for the same character.
🐇 Tips for Creating a Consistent Character for Production: Ensure your character remains true to design across various illustrations.
INCLUDED IN MY COURSE:
Fundamentals & Materials
We will look together at the materials, basic techniques, and knowledge needed to begin this journey. Approaching a new technique means first learning how best to use the tools at your disposal.
Practical exercises
Theory is important, but what makes you a true artist is practice... Lots of practice! You'll find lots of exercises to get started with and from which to get inspiration. I will show you some tricks that will make your drawings truly unique and masterpieces.
Lifetime Access
Once you register for the course, you will have lifetime access and you can watch it whenever you want! This will enable you to better learn even the most difficult notions. You don't have a deadline, you can take the course even for 5 minutes a day! This possibility, doesn't it seem incredible?
Flexibility
This is one of the course's strengths: being able to watch the videos wherever you want, whenever you want, and as many times as you want. The course is available from any device so you can watch the course from the comfort of your home or take a single lesson on the train!
My daily support
On this journey, you will never be alone! You can write to me and you will receive my feedback as soon as possible, so you will always feel supported. Sometimes, approaching drawing is not easy. You may feel that you are not enough, but don't worry: I will be there to help you, step by step!
... and much more!
SIGN UP NOWMy drawings course will elevate your artistic skills! What's better than improving yourself while having fun? Plus, you will achieve beautiful results in no time.
Let me tell you more about my methodology and the platform structure.
All videos are in FULL HD and you can adjust the speed, audio and quality.
In all my videos, I try to use as many visual elements as possible, such as pictures and references, so you can take some inspiration and you can practice. You can follow each step as I show it to you, and you can comment and compare with other students under each video or in the group so you can resolve any doubts you have and learn new tricks!
The course is designed to be as practical as possible, even teaching you the basics of color and how to use the tools. You can review the lessons as many times as you want, where you want, and when you want!
Doesn't that sound amazing?
Extra content that you will get for free with the course
Badger Character
A step-by-step process on how to draw, sketch, and create a badger. Included in the course fee.
($47 FREE)
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If you are not satisfied with the course for any reason, you have the right to obtain a full refund within the first 14 days. This is my guarantee to you, I want all my students to be satisfied. Also, this means that there is no risk as well! Give it a try and experience the program first-hand!
