Manga & Anime Drawings How to Create Characters on Your Phone by Kim Myway

Learn at your own pace in this 20-week online course. Artistic guidance & feedback from the artist herself. Engaged & supportive community of peers to exchange feedback. English subtitles (Original audio in Korean). Enroll now to start learning right away!

Did you even know you can draw on your phone? A lot of people are surprised when they hear this, but I want you to know that you can draw amazing drawings on your phone. Let’s share how easy and fun drawing is, and the joyful feelings you can feel with all the powers of digital creation in the palm of your hand.

Create a Family of Characters You have the power to bring characters to life! In this class, you will learn how to transform the people of your imagination, and even real life, into characters on paper. Your characters will have emotions and physical features, as if they were real! From concept design to the actual drawing process, I’ll tell you all the steps to creating characters.

Worried about the technical aspects? Don’t be! It’s never difficult! You can draw characters with really light lines like in my drawings. I will teach you how to draw and catch the key points so that you can freely express figures without complicated details or techniques. Also, I will point out the parts that are easy to mess up so you get a perfect sketch every time.

Drawing Clothes and Hair Vintage food illustrations emphasized the texture and appearance of food by exaggerating the crunchiness of bread or the glistening of ice cubes. You will learn to capture the same feeling in your own drawings by the end of this course.

Adding Vivid Colors There are two main ways to color a character. There is the basic method of drawing an outline and filling in colors, and the method of drawing smoothly with only colors without any lines. The feelings of the two methods are completely different, and they can be applied in a variety of ways. I will tell you how to choose colors and color neatly and cleanly.

Also, depending on how you use light and shadow, you can express the atmosphere of the picture in many different ways. Let’s gradually learn how to use the contrast in the simplest and coolest way to match cartoon drawings.

Drawing the Scene Give your characters a story. What if your character was a main character in an animation? Imagine the specific situations your character faces and draw scenes as if they are a still cut of a movie or animation! In fact, you can capture the character as if they were moving and alive. You can tell stories through your illustrations!

A Character Sheet? What’s That? I’ll teach you to organize your characters into one sheet? A character sheet explains everything about a character’s appearance, clothing, personality, and rough story. After finishing with a completed sheet, your character will be complete! Character sheets are also great as an addition to your portfolio.