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Character Design Art Camp (Ages 10-16 yrs)

  • All levels
  • 10 - 16 years old
  • $250
  • #15 700 Winchester Boulevard , San Jose, CA
  • 15 hours over 5 sessions

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  • $250
  • 15 hours over 5 sessions
  • Half day camp
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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this kids drawing class:

This camp teaches character design from the ground up: starting with fundamentals like anatomy, gesture, and shape design. Students will learn to create original characters from scratch. 

Bring your sketchbooks or drawing tablets, instruction will be provided for both digital and traditional media!

High-quality art materials provided.

Detailed Schedule

Character Design:

DAY 1. Realistic Head Drawing

  1. The creative approach for drawing the head and face honest to realistic proportions 

  2. Using a reference 

  3.  proper techniques for head drawing

    • Steps for successful drawing

    • Relying on simple shapes

    • How to use a pencil

  4. How to draw individual parts of the head that work in harmony with one another.    

    • The relationship each part of the face has with the other

DAY 2. Stylized head drawing

  1. Use of simple shapes to project more complicated concepts.

  2. Stylized proportions and their relationship to realistic proportions

DAY 3. Realistic human anatomy (male and female)

  1. Proportions in traditional human drawing

  2. Introduction to basic male and female anatomy 

  3. Creating bodies in motions

  4. Gesture drawing

DAY 4. Stylized human anatomy

  1. Use of simple shapes to create characters

  2. The limitations of stylized anatomy 

  3. Playing with proportions to create new styles 

DAY 5. Final project

Creating your own character/ discovering your style

Bring your own lunch and snacks.

Refund Policy

We do not provide refunds for ongoing classes tuition, courses or camps payments.

  • However, full credit towards future booking or transfer to another camp/course will be offered for any cancellations made up to 2 business days before the camp or course starts.
  • Ongoing classes can be canceled with a 31 business days prior notice.

You can make up a missed class on another day when we offer the same age/skill group class. The make-up class should be arranged in advance, no drop-ins. Limit 2 make-up classes per month. Make-up classes are subject to the availability of space in a similar class. We reserve the right not to provide make-up classes or terminate the class enrollment for repeating truancy.

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Art School of SF Bay

Art School of SF Bay teachers are skilled artists with Fine Arts degrees, working in realistic tradition. We teach representational drawing from nature to kids and adults in a creative and approachable way.

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