Drawing From Your Imagination
Sean Andrew Murray
Learn the power of the sketchbook.
This 8-week course will guide you through unique activities that will leave your sketchbook bursting with new ideas. Create dozens of new ideas from scratch while improving your drawing skills!
Meet Your Teacher
Sean Andrew Murray has lent his drawing skills to Hollywood directors like Guillermo Del Toro and Darren Aronofsky. He has years of experience as a concept artist working in AAA games. Most recently, he's a professor of illustration at the prestigious Ringling College of Art and Design.
Sean is one of the leading talents in illustrating fantastical cities and one of the leading authorities on world-building.
Someone once called him "The King of Fantasy Art".
What's in the course?
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Weekly pre-recorded course lectures
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Weekly pre-recorded drawing demonstrations
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Supplementary content on what drawing tools, accessories, and sketchbooks Sean recommends
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Video recordings of Sean's sketchbook drawings
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Fantasy city photography reference pack
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Downloadable PDFs for weekly homework assignments
Drawing From Your Imagination is a video on-demand course you complete do at your own pace!
Tools of the Trade
Get to know about the basics of pencils, pens, sketchbooks, and other tools that will help you in your creative sketchbook process.
Character Design
Learn to use skills like sketching, ideation, and observation to create unique characters, serving as starting points for world-building, with a final goal of a story-rich conceptual drawing.
Monster Design
Understand how to design compelling monsters based on psychology, exploring how emotions, fears, and desires shape memorable creatures from the darkest corners of their imagination.
Architectural Design
Learn to use the discovery method to design imaginative architecture, applying shape, contrast, and storytelling to create fantastical structures that blend with natural landscapes.
Scene Development
Understand how to create fully realized scenes combining characters, creatures, and environments to tell stories of imaginary worlds, optionally using graphic novel panels or short storyboard sequences.
