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Character Art School: Complete Coloring & Painting Course

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  • Updated 4/2025
4.8
(6,015 Ratings)
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Course Information

Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
19 Hour(s) 32 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Scott Harris, Art Director & Lead Instructor
Rating
4.8
(6,015 Ratings)

Course Overview

Character Art School: Complete Coloring & Painting Course

The Best Way to Learn to Color and Paint Professional Characters for Animation, Games, Comics, Manga and More.

What is Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting?

Character Art School is a 6 week learn-anywhere video course where you learn to become adept at coloring and painting professional characters. I’ve hand-crafted the Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting course to be the only course you need, to learn all the core fundamentals and advanced techniques to coloring and painting characters well. If you’re an absolute beginner or you’re already at an intermediate level, the course will advance your current ability to a professional level. The course is a comprehensive 5 module guided video course, where the only limit to your progression is your determination and engagement in the rewarding assignments.

Whether you want to color and paint character concept art for films and games, illustrations, comics, manga, Disney style or other styles, this is the course you need to get you there.

I’ll teach you to color and paint with confidence and without fear. I’ll teach you to color and paint well. You will know all the core theory, workflows and practical application for professional level Character Coloring and Painting.


Finally, Learn Character Coloring and Painting Well

Whether you’re a complete beginner, or intermediate at character coloring and painting, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew. Seriously. Inspired by masters and built on the theory of giants, Character Drawing Academy is one of, if not the most comprehensive character coloring and painting course out there. I’m so convinced of this, I’ll give you a no-questions asked refund if you’re not satisfied.


Clear, Easy to Understand Lessons

Crystal clear in fact. Learning character coloring and painting effectively means having information presented in a logical and coherent way. The Character Coloring and Painting Course is modular by design, easy to grasp, and allows you to learn in a well paced, structured way. Engage in the course chronologically, then revise each module at your leisure. Grasp concepts faster than you ever have before – there’s no fluff here. You'll also find that Coloring and Painting is grounded in very solid and complete theory. Learn rapidly.


Assignments that are Rewarding

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, each module’s assignments have been designed to both reinforce theory, and feel rewarding. I’ve taken the core of Color and Light theory, and purpose built each assignment to help you rapidly progress, and you’ll see the difference in your own work almost immediately. Art is about doing, so let’s get started.


What's Your Style?

Whether you want to learn to color and paint characters for games, comics, cartoons, manga, animation and more, this course has you covered. I'm not teaching you a 'method' or a 'way' to color and paint, I'm teaching you to be a fundamentally good character colorist and painter.

Course Content

  • 8 section(s)
  • 83 lecture(s)
  • Section 1 Introduction
  • Section 2 Module 1: Light and Color Art Fundamentals
  • Section 3 Module 2: Using Digital Tools
  • Section 4 Module 3: The Character Coloring and Painting Workflow
  • Section 5 Module 4: Coloring and Painting Styles
  • Section 6 Module 5: Comprehensive Character Coloring and Painting Demos
  • Section 7 Conclusion
  • Section 8 Additional Content

What You’ll Learn

  • How to Paint Characters from Beginner to Advanced, How to Color Characters using Multiple Techniques, How to Color Comic Book Characters, How to Color Manga, How to Color Anime, How to Paint Digitally and Use that Theory with Traditional Tools

Skills covered in this course


Reviews

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    Rachel Herron
    5.0

    Dear Scott, I wanted to reach out and thank you for your incredible course on character coloring. It has been an absolute masterclass and exactly what I needed. While I initially sought out hair coloring techniques, your lessons on the fundamentals of light were transformative. You simplified a subject I typically find too dense to follow, and I finally feel confident applying light sources to my work. I also deeply appreciated the instruction on layer management; it is such a vital skill that is often overlooked. Thank you also for providing the high-quality brushes and the generous three-hour preview. Your confidence and willingness to share your knowledge are truly inspiring. I cannot speak highly enough of this course. Thank you for your generosity and for sharing your expertise.

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    D M
    5.0

    Great information easily accessible and informative

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    David A Beaubien
    5.0

    yes very good. now I understand whats going on. of other courses.no one made it this clear

  • L
    Laquan Johnson
    5.0

    Because I like drawing

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