People & Characters

Animated Faces in Procreate

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Do you struggle when it comes to drawing faces? This course will guide you through the process of creating a stylized face with ease. Learn my step-by-step process that makes even the most challenging aspects, feel doable and simple. By the end of the course, you'll have a foundational understanding of how to draw facial features. Then, I'll teach you how you can make your illustration come to life with animation.

Cute Characters in Costume

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Witches, skeletons and mummies, oh my! Join me in this live tutorial replay where I guide you through how to draw cute characters donning spook-tacular costumes in Procreate. I teach you a simple and easy method for drawing bodies, heads and faces. Afterwards, we'll dress up our characters in adorable costumes. Grab your iPad and Apple Pencil and let's have a costume party!

Drawing Clothes in Procreate

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Get ready for some fashion fun! In this live session, I show you how to draw a variety of clothing items—from shirts to skirts, pants, accessories, and more! Not great at drawing people? No worries! I’ve got you covered with a premade Paper Doll Procreate template and color palette, so you can focus on the fun part: dressing up your character and sharpening your garment drawing skills.

Faces on the Fly: Quirky, No-Plan Portraits - May Live Tutorial

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In this live tutorial, you’ll learn how to draw expressive, head-and-shoulder portraits without any sketching or planning. We’ll start with four simple head shapes, then intuitively add facial features, colors, and accessories. This playful process helps you tap into your artistic instincts and develop quirky, personality-filled characters as you go.

Kickstart your Creativity with Procreate Vol. 2

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Discover what’s possible when you push the boundaries of your creativity with Procreate. Kickstart Your Creativity with Procreate Vol. 2 builds on the foundation of Vol. 1 with 4 weeks of fun, approachable lessons. Explore themes like weather, clothing, flowers, and people while mastering advanced Procreate tools, custom brushes, and patterns. Grow your skills and develop a sustainable creative habit.

People Skills | Part 1: How to Draw Faces

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This is the first course in the People Skills series about how to draw humans and develop your people-drawing style. You will learn to observe facial features, break them down into their basic elements, and use them to draw stylized eyes, noses, mouths, ears, and hair. We'll also discuss facial proportion rules (and how to break them!) before putting everything together to draw a complete face in our own style!

People Skills | Part 2: How to Draw Expressions

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Learn how to convey emotions and depict expressions when drawing faces! After finding your character's neutral face, you will explore 16 different expressions by manipulating facial features. Discover how a minor change in a feature can convey an entirely different emotion! Use these skills to make your work more engaging and story-telling - whether you're drawing humans, animals, creatures, or other characters.

People Skills | Part 3: Limbs & Appendages

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To draw a full body, you need to know how to draw each part. In this course, you'll learn simple methods for drawing limbs and appendages, working from small to large. Through engaging videos and a variety of fun exercises and homework assignments, learn how to draw fingers, hands, arms, toes, feet, and legs!

People Skills | Part 4: Bodies + Poses

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This is the final course in the People Skills series! Now it's time to put it all together everything you've learned about drawing people. First, you'll learn about body proportion rules (and how to break them). After learning a simple method for studying and analyzing the body in various positions and actions, you'll be creating posed figures in no time!

Playing Card Portraits: Illustrate an Icon

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What if your favorite icon was the face of a playing card? In this live tutorial, we’ll create art-inspired playing cards by drawing a 3/4 view portrait and using Procreate’s symmetry tools to design with ease. I’ll be drawing Frida Kahlo, but you can choose any icon or character. You’ll also get a custom mockup to see your design come to life!

Simple Storybook Characters in Procreate

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In this live tutorial, I teach you how to bring a storybook character to life, drawing inspiration from the pages of classic literary tales featured in the Public Domain. I guide you through my art-making process, as I gather visual clues from the story's text that will fuel our character illustrations.

Vintage Celestial-Inspired Sun Illustration

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In this tutorial, we'll draw a vintage celestial-inspired sun illustration! We'll be using brushes from my Celestial Art Kit that is free with your membership. This tutorial will help get you familiar with directional pattern brushes, cross hatch shading, drawing facial proportions, using gradient maps, and more!