Hand-Painted Illustration: Zero-Basis Digital Drawing for Beginners
Course Duration: 12 Hours
Suitable Crowd: Art enthusiasts, design newbies, students, content creators, and anyone who wants to learn digital painting with a drawing tablet—no traditional painting experience required
Have you ever dreamed of creating beautiful illustrations but don’t know how to hold a paintbrush properly?
Or stared at stunning digital artworks online and wondered how artists turn blank canvases into vivid characters and scenes?
Do you want to master
digital board painting—a skill that lets you create art anytime, anywhere, without the mess of traditional paints and paper?
This Hand-Painted Illustration: Zero-Basis Digital Drawing for Beginners video course is your perfect starting point for digital art. We’ll take you from someone who has never touched a drawing tablet to a confident beginner who can create cute characters, simple scenes, and personalized illustrations. No fancy equipment is needed—we’ll teach you to use affordable drawing tablets and free/cheap software (like Krita or Procreate) to make amazing art. In 12 hours of patient, step-by-step teaching, you’ll learn not just how to draw, but also how to develop your own creative style.
What You Will Master in This Course
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Digital Drawing Basics: Get Started with Your Drawing Tablet
Overcome the initial awkwardness of using a drawing tablet and lay the foundation for digital painting:
- Tablet & Software Setup: Choose the right entry-level drawing tablet (budget-friendly recommendations included). Learn to install and set up popular free software—Krita (for Windows/Mac) and Procreate (for iPad). Customize brush settings, canvas sizes, and shortcuts to match your hand habits.
- Hand-Eye Coordination Training: Solve the “tablet cursor not following your hand” problem with 5 simple exercises. Master basic line drawing skills—draw straight lines, curves, and circles smoothly without shaking (the biggest pain point for beginners).
- Brush & Color Fundamentals: Understand different brush types (pencil, watercolor, airbrush) and their uses. Learn basic color theory—how to choose harmonious color palettes, adjust brightness/contrast, and avoid “ugly color matching” mistakes.
- Practical Exercise: Draw 3 simple shapes (square, circle, triangle) with smooth lines, and fill them with a matching color palette to get familiar with the software and tablet.
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Core Illustration Skills: From Simple Shapes to Cute Characters
Learn to break down complex illustrations into basic shapes and create your first original characters:
- Shape-Based Drawing Method: The easiest way for beginners to draw—turn everything into circles, squares, and triangles. For example: a character’s head is a circle, body is a rectangle, limbs are small cylinders.
- Cute Character Design: Master the steps to draw 3 popular character styles:
- Chibi Characters: Big heads, small bodies, exaggerated expressions—perfect for social media stickers or avatar design.
- Cartoon Animals: Draw cute cats, dogs, and rabbits with simple lines and vivid colors.
- Simple Human Figures: Design a basic character with different poses (standing, sitting, waving) for story illustrations.
- Line Art & Coloring Techniques: Learn to clean up rough sketches into smooth line art. Master flat coloring (easy for beginners) and simple shading to add depth to your characters (no complex gradient skills needed).
- Practical Exercise: Draw a chibi-style cat character from scratch—sketch, line art, flat color, and basic shading.
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Scene & Practical Creation: Turn Your Ideas into Finished Artworks
Apply your skills to create complete illustrations and use them in real life or social media:
- Simple Scene Design: Combine characters with basic backgrounds—draw a chibi character sitting on a grassy field, or a cartoon dog playing in a park. Learn to use layers to separate characters and backgrounds (so you can edit them easily later).
- Text & Decoration: Add cute text or decorative elements (stars, hearts, flowers) to your illustrations to make them more lively. Perfect for creating social media posts, greeting cards, or notebook covers.
- Export & Use Your Art: Learn to export your illustrations in the right formats—PNG (transparent background, great for stickers) and JPG (for printing or social media). Use your art to make personalized avatars, phone wallpapers, or small business product labels.
- Practical Exercise: Create a complete illustration—a chibi character in a park scene—and export it as a phone wallpaper and a transparent sticker.