01. Introduction- Meet your instructor and learn about the overview of this class

02. Drawing as a Tool to Share Your Personal Ideas with Others- Your own unique visual language - Your life experiences and surroundings shape your ideas and strengths

03. Visualizing the Final Illustration in Your Head- Thinking about which emotion and which mood you would like to achieve - How specific moods can be achieved - Painting the illustration in your head before everything else

04. Short Term Memory Exercise- Memorize the reference and try to draw as much as possible from mind - Train your visual memory this way

05. Visualization Exercise- Use a reference as an inspiration for a character design - Visualize a character in your head and try to draw its silhouette

06. Composition Basic Techniques- What is composition? - Why is it important? - Rule of thirds, golden ratio

07. Analyzing My Compositions- Explaining in detail how I applied composition to my art - Simplifying elements into basic abstract shapes - Repeating shapes to create rhythm and order - Arranging values to create frames, guiding lines and creating focal points

08. Analyzing Another Artist's Composition- Take an artist of your liking and try to analyze their composition - In this video: Analyzing a painting from master painter John Singer Sargent - Trying to find patterns and compositional rules applied to his piece

09. Thumbnail Sketching (Working on Final Product)- Why thumbnail sketeches are a great way to visualize your idea very quickly - Develop you base idea further with different composition ideas - Iterating a sketch for a more ideal composition - Deciding on which light situation would fit your scene - Creating different focal points with light and shadow - Adding values makes it easier to recognize problems in your composition

10. Composition Exercise with Simple Objects- Do's and Don'ts - Use simple object to practice composition in different camera angles - Additional composition tips

11. Types of Perspective and Their Use- Discussing 4 different main types of perspective rules that are usually used for drawing - Which kind of perspective to use in which situation

12. Perspectvie Study Exercise- Using a perspective ruler as a guideline - Studying a 1 point perspective street scene - What to look out for while studying

13. Perspective x Composition Practice- Create a whole scenic illustration made up only with boxes using the perspective ruler - Focus on small and big detail distribution for an interesting composition

14. Constructing the Background of Our Illustration (Working on Final Product)- Using the thumbnails sketch, we construct the scene of your illustration

15. Drawing the Three Dimensional Anime Style Head - Realistic proportions vs stylized proportions - Understanding the 3D form - Understanding the three demensional form of the eyes

16. Constructing the Stylized Head in 3D Space- Constructing and drawing the head in 3D space - Using a ball shape as a base

17. Drawing the Three Dimensional Figure- Realistic proportions vs stylized proportions - Simplifying the body into a more easily understandable box figure - Additional practical tips to keep in mind

18. Gesture Drawing Practice- Planning the gesture with dynamic stick figures - The composition within the figure itself - Applying the simplified box figure to a gesture drawing

19. Mannequin Drawing Practice- Upgrading the box figure into a more detailed "mannequin" - Taking a look at each body part - Applying the mannequin to the simple box figure

20. Drawing the Stylized Hair- Breaking down hair into 3 parts - Simplifying hair strands - Difference between real and anime hair

21. Stylized Hair and Angles - Draw a stylized hair style from reference onto different head angles

22. Drawing Fabric and Clothing- How to construct the clothing around a naked figure - Tension points and fold - Fold types

23. Constructing and Dressing Our Character- Applying the things learned above to our main illustration

24. Light and Color- Light, color, and shadows - Direct and diffused lighting - the usage of color schemes

25. Materials and Their Specularity- Behaviour of shadow and light on different materials - Material painting demo - Materials with different specularity - Subsurface scattering - Painting stylized hair

26. How to Conduct an Photo or Real Life- Painting a still life from reference - Paying attention to colors and values - Painting what we see, not what we expect

27. Constructing Cast Shadows Under Direct Lighting- How to construct cast shadows accurately for simple geometric objects - How construct cast shadows for complex objects, like a person

28. Composing Your Values in B/W- Using our detailed sketch we define our lighting and composition more accurately - Simplifying shadow and light masses of the background - Composing light and shadow on the character for an appealing result

29. Adding Color (Working on Final Product)- We apply colors onto the b/w sketch via the “color layer” - Using the newly generated colors we paint over this sketch and refine some of our color choices even more

30. Applying Color to Greyscale Exercise

31. Linework as a part of the Shading- Types of Linework - Showing depth with lines - Integrating of lines into the shading

32. Practicing Line Confidence with 3D Shapes- Practice quickly drawn and confident lines - Draw flat shapes distorted in perspective using your muscle memory and guesswork - Practice drawing circles and ellipses with quick confident lines

33. Practicing Line Confidence with 3D Forms- Take the previous exercise to the next step and draw 3D forms - Draw simple as well as complex forms - Use cross sections to draw more complex forms

34. Lining (Working on Final Product)-Drawing the final linework for the character and background in our main illustration

35. Painting and Finalizing the Final Product (Working on Final Product)- Using all the preparations we've made to go in and render the final image - Structuring our layers for efficient work - Creating appealing shadow and light shapes - Fixing mistakes - Balancing saturation levels to make objects pop out - Integrating linework into the shading

36. My Personal View on Becoming an Artist- A path of passion - Career advice - Social Media advice