Mini-courseIntermediate
Character concept: my first hero
Six lessons in three modules: from the warm-up and the search for a silhouette to line art, color layouts and render. You finish with a character ready for your portfolio.
- 3 weeks
- of study
- 3
- modules
- 6
- lessons
- 2 hr 47 min
- videos
About the course
Six lessons, about three hours of video, three weeks of work. The first module is a warm-up on simple solids and finding the hero through silhouette, shape and graphic read, plus gathering references. The second is line art and three color layouts checked against value. The third is render: light, shadow, highlights, reflected light and finishing.
Time is usually lost in one place: people start a character from the face and the costume details while there is no image yet. The check is simple — fill the silhouette with black. If it doesn’t read who this is and what they do, no amount of detailing will save it. That’s why the first stage is three to five sketches in big shapes, without a single small detail, and only then you pick one.
What you’ll make with your own hands: five cubes, five spheres and five cylinders as a warm-up, several silhouette sketches, a set of references, clean line art, three palette options of no more than three colors each, and the final render. For tools you need a tablet or an iPad and any editor with layers — Photoshop, Procreate, Krita, Clip Studio Paint.
The mini-course comes with the Club plan and isn’t sold separately. The subscription opens all the mini-courses at once, and your lesson progress is kept even after you cancel and comes back when you subscribe again.
- Format
- Video lessons with practice after each one, your own pace — about 3 weeks
- Materials
- Working files and references for the lessons — yours to download
- Where to watch
- In your account: your progress and the rest of the plan’s courses live there too
What you’ll be able to do
- 01Finding the lookfinding a character’s personality through silhouette and overall shape.
- 02Working with referencesunderstanding how and when to use them.
- 03Line arta confident line drawing free of the most common mistakes.
- 04Color and valuechoosing a palette deliberately and checking the values.
- 05Renderingworking with light, shadow, highlights and reflected light — start to finish.
- 06Finished concept arta completed character for your portfolio.
Program
3 modules · 6 lessons · 2 hr 47 minEvery lesson opens with a plan — you watch them in your account
How it works
Watch the lesson
The walkthrough video and its working files open in your account.
Repeat it
Every lesson ends with practice — you draw right away, step by step.
Show your work
Post it to the shared feed, and Azat reviews the work on stream.
Who it’s for and what you’ll need
Who it suits
- The course is for anyone who wants to learn character concept art — from finding the look to the final render. It suits beginners as well as artists who already draw but want a clear working process.
- If you’ve been meaning to draw your own character and put it in your portfolio, this course gives you the structure and the result.
What you need to have
- A graphics tablet or an iPad with any stylus
- Any program with brushes and layers: Photoshop, Procreate, Krita, Clip Studio Paint, etc.
- A computer, laptop or tablet with internet access to watch the lessons
- No special tools needed — start with what you already have.
SubscriptionClub — $33 a month
The course opens along with the whole studio
286 video lessons
Azat’s archive on drawing and painting
9 mini-courses
all of them, not just this one
4 reference packs
references and working files, yours to download
Streams and work reviews
Azat reviews work on the Sunday stream