Skillshare – Learn Cartoon Character Design for Animation

In this class you'll learn everythig you need, from the ground up, to create the type of cartoon characters you see in modern tv shows like Dexter's Lab, Fairly Odd Parents and My Little Pony. All by using the free, open source program Inkscape, and the mouse.

The class starts with a fairly in depth view of the program Inkscape. After that it goes into drawing the features of the head step by step. Then you'll learn the techniques and methods to build different types of body that you see in cartoon shows all thetime. And finally you'll learn how to make your characters nice looking by applying line, color and shadows.