LEVEL UP YOUR CHARACTER DESIGN SKILLS
Online CoursesÂ
I love to teach!Â
It's an absolute joy seeing artists take that next step and elevate their craft. Over the past years I developed a variety of courses, each with a detailed exploration into a different aspect of character design and visual art.
My courses are hosted on Schoolism, a premier online art education platform founded by renowned concept artist Bobby Chiu, dedicated to providing high-quality, accessible education taught exclusively by top industry professionals. Through this platform, I’m excited to share my personal toolkit and industry standards with you.Â
Dimensional Drawing Workout
Are you ready to design characters that truly connect with your audience? In my 9-week course, Expressive Characters, I invite you to join me as I pull back the curtain on my personal toolkit for creating impactful character designs.Â
I will guide you through my signature three-step framework: observe, emphasize, and exaggerate. Whether your goal is illustration or animation, this class will give you the confidence to bring your creative visions to life. Sign up today and let’s start creating together!
Fundamentals of Expressive Character Design
Breathe life and personality into your art. This foundational course focuses on the core principles needed to design truly expressive, dynamic characters. Through targeted, individual exercises, you will master the three pillars of character design: shape, volume, and gesture. From understanding 3D space on a 2D surface to structural body construction, you’ll gain the practical skills to build characters that come alive.
"Wouter Tulp’s “Expressive Character” course is a treasure trove of useful information for artists of all fields. Not only is Wouter an incredibly talented and accomplished artist, he is a generous and patient instructor. I look forward to taking more of his courses!"
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- TARA ZALEWSKY - LIVE WEDDING ARTIST AND EVENT ILLUSTRATORÂ
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Expressive characters
Want to design characters full of life and personality? In my 9-week course, Expressive Characters, I will teach you how to move beyond static drawings using advanced character exaggeration. We will master proportion, weight, acting, and facial expressions using a simple, effective three-step methodology: observe, emphasize, and exaggerate. Whether you are working in illustration or animation, I will help you find the perfect balance between feeling, function, and force to bring your character concepts to life.
Expressive characters workout
Are you ready to take your character designs to the next level in just 30 minutes a day? I invite you to join me for this intense 9-week training program!Â
Together, we will apply a few fundamental principles across key areas, including shape language, weight, facial expressions, caricature, and character relationships. This daily workout perfectly accompanies my Expressive Characters course, giving you the consistent, focused repetitions you need to build lasting skills. Let’s jump in and start elevating your character designs, one day at a time!
Facial expressions
Ready to master one of the most powerful storytelling tools in art? Join my course and learn how to create impactful facial expressions! We will cover everything from foundational head construction to advanced emotional acting. I’ll show you how facial anatomy drives emotion and share my techniques for pushing expressions while keeping your designs structurally solid. If you want to stop drawing stiff faces and start connecting with your audience, this class is for you!
Conceptual characters
Great character designs are more than just beautiful drawings—they are real personalities we can relate to. In my course, we focus entirely on the ideation process. Together, we’ll figure out who your character is and why they need to look the way they do. Using 'the character designer's toolbox', I’ll teach you how to organize your thoughts and meet industry standards. Join me, and let’s craft powerful concepts that truly stand out!
Digital painting workout
Ready to break out of your comfort zone and elevate your painting process to an industry standard? Join me for the Digital Painting Workout! Over 63 days, we will tackle a new 30-minute exercise every single day. As an active industry professional, I’ve structured this course to push your technical choices in value, lighting, color, and texture. We’ll focus on the core fundamentals of painting—whether you work digitally or traditionally—giving you the daily repetitions you need to make your creative workflow feel like second nature.
"This course has helped me level up my fundamentals tremendously. It has taught me how to think visually and simplify complex subjects. The workout format kept me disciplined and consistently improving."
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REE VEE - VIZDEV ARTIST
Analysing art
Want to unlock the secrets behind history's most powerful artwork? Join renowned painter Jonathan Hardesty and me in our course, Analyzing Art! As industry professionals, we’ve designed this class to help you bridge the gap between technical execution and deep artistic thinking. We’ll guide you through expert breakdowns of composition, light, form, and abstraction in famous works. By training your eye to see like an artist and completing practical assignments, you’ll learn how to reverse-engineer great art and elevate your own work to a professional standard.
