Young Artists, ages 8 to 12, characters
Creature Workshop
Design your own characters: shape language, silhouettes, mixing ideas, every side.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Lessons
- 9 in 4 units
- Time
- 2.5 hours of lessons
- Pace
- About three weeks
Already drawing with Lapis? Open the course in the app
The goal
What you’ll be able to draw
Design your own characters: shape language, silhouettes, mixing ideas, and showing a creature from every side.
How you’ll see the progress
A creature at the start and at the end, and your creature card.
Skills
- Characters
- Shapes
- Stories and comics
Pictures you’ll make
- Mix-and-Match Animal Project
- My Creature Card Project
4 units, 9 lessons
The syllabus
Unit 1 is free for everyone, so you can see how it feels first.
- 3 checkpoint
- 2 then and now
- 2 concept
- 2 project
- Free
Unit 1
Shapes have feelings
Circles feel friendly, squares strong, triangles sharp and dangerous.
- 01 Then: A Creature Then and now, 10 min Then and now 10 min
- 02 Shape Language Concept, 4 min Concept 4 min
- 03 Show What You Learned Checkpoint, 10 min Checkpoint 10 min
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Unit 2
Silhouettes
A good creature reads as a black shape.
- 01 Which Silhouette Reads? Concept, 4 min Concept 4 min
- 02 Show What You Learned Checkpoint, 10 min Checkpoint 10 min
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Unit 3
Creatures
Dragons, aliens, robots and animals mixed together.
- 01 Mix-and-Match Animal Project, 40 min Project 40 min
- 02 Show What You Learned Checkpoint, 10 min Checkpoint 10 min
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Unit 4
Show it all
Front, side and back, and the same creature at three sizes.
- 01 My Creature Card Project, 40 min Project 40 min
- 02 Now: A Creature Then and now, 10 min Then and now 10 min
When you finish
A certificate for the fridge
Finish every lesson and Lapis makes a certificate to print or download, with the nickname, the course, the date and a drawing from it. Children get one too.
Lapis certificate
Creature Workshop
finished by
your nickname
and the date you finish
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