Schoolism is an online platform for art education, with courses taught by industry professionals, most of them working in the movies and games industry. All courses are available with one subscription. Schoolism also offers an option where the student gets personal feedback from the instructor. Check out the schoolism website to find out more.
I teach a total of six courses at schoolism. Three of them are courses where feedback is provided, and three are so called 'workout-courses'. These courses contain daily exercises to improve drawing and painting skills.
You can click on the title of each course to learn more and to enroll.
I teach a total of six courses at schoolism. Three of them are courses where feedback is provided, and three are so called 'workout-courses'. These courses contain daily exercises to improve drawing and painting skills.
You can click on the title of each course to learn more and to enroll.
Dimensional drawing workout
Prepare to take your drawings to a whole new dimension in "Dimensional Drawing Workout with Wouter Tulp”, where you’ll join renowned character designer Wouter Tulp on a 9-week creative journey that will pump up your skills in creating depth on a 2D canvas! Over 63 days, with daily 30-minute exercises, you'll explore essential concepts of dimensionality, including:
Prepare to take your drawings to a whole new dimension in "Dimensional Drawing Workout with Wouter Tulp”, where you’ll join renowned character designer Wouter Tulp on a 9-week creative journey that will pump up your skills in creating depth on a 2D canvas! Over 63 days, with daily 30-minute exercises, you'll explore essential concepts of dimensionality, including:
- How to draw and rotate simple objects
- Different types of perspective
- Constructing the human body
- Drawing animals from different angles
- Posing characters
- Integrating characters and objects into existing environments
- Lighting
Fundamentals of expressive character design
Character designers are able to visually communicate so much about a character’s personality through designs that are expressive, gestural, and full of life. This course focuses on the fundamentals needed to create expressive characters and will provide you with a skill set with which you are able to create volume, dynamics and expressiveness to your character designs. The three main topics we’ll focus on throughout the course are shape, volume and gesture, which are the main techniques we’ll use to bring our characters to life, but we will also cover topics like how shapes can affect the dynamics of a design, fundamentals of perspective, understanding 3D space on a 2D surface, and basic body construction. Shape, volume and gesture are analyzed in separate exercises, so we’ll spend ample time on each topic individually to ensure we develop a clear understanding of how these principles work. Along the way, we’ll start combining them to bring simple objects and, ultimately, our characters to life!
Character designers are able to visually communicate so much about a character’s personality through designs that are expressive, gestural, and full of life. This course focuses on the fundamentals needed to create expressive characters and will provide you with a skill set with which you are able to create volume, dynamics and expressiveness to your character designs. The three main topics we’ll focus on throughout the course are shape, volume and gesture, which are the main techniques we’ll use to bring our characters to life, but we will also cover topics like how shapes can affect the dynamics of a design, fundamentals of perspective, understanding 3D space on a 2D surface, and basic body construction. Shape, volume and gesture are analyzed in separate exercises, so we’ll spend ample time on each topic individually to ensure we develop a clear understanding of how these principles work. Along the way, we’ll start combining them to bring simple objects and, ultimately, our characters to life!
Expressive characters
In my course, 'Expressive Characters', you'll learn his many techniques in creating characters that speak to your audience, as well as to your idea. Over the nine week course, I will teach ou my techniques in character exaggeration, including how to emphasise proportion, dimensionality, weight, facial expressions, acting, and much more, all in order to give your characters life and make them more believable. You'll learn whether to emphasise feeling, function, or force when trying to develop your character concept, and how further exaggeration can help get this concept across. Each lesson maintains the three steps of observe, emphasise and exaggerate, and each lesson will have you creating new characters for review. If you want to learn more about character creation for illustration and animation, then this is the class for you!
In my course, 'Expressive Characters', you'll learn his many techniques in creating characters that speak to your audience, as well as to your idea. Over the nine week course, I will teach ou my techniques in character exaggeration, including how to emphasise proportion, dimensionality, weight, facial expressions, acting, and much more, all in order to give your characters life and make them more believable. You'll learn whether to emphasise feeling, function, or force when trying to develop your character concept, and how further exaggeration can help get this concept across. Each lesson maintains the three steps of observe, emphasise and exaggerate, and each lesson will have you creating new characters for review. If you want to learn more about character creation for illustration and animation, then this is the class for you!
Expressive characters workout
Get ready to elevate your character designs as you workout with your coach, Wouter Tulp! Over 63 exercises, Wouter will show you how to apply just a few basic principles to your work to improve the expressiveness of your character designs. Exercises will focus on
Get ready to elevate your character designs as you workout with your coach, Wouter Tulp! Over 63 exercises, Wouter will show you how to apply just a few basic principles to your work to improve the expressiveness of your character designs. Exercises will focus on
- Shapes
- Dimensionality
- Angles and arrow dynamics
- Weight
- Hair and clothing
- Facial expressions
- Caricature
- Acting
- Character relationships
Conceptual characters
This course deals with the creative process, developing ideas and translating these ideas into communicative designs. In the stories we love, characters are actual personalities we can relate to. In this course, we focus on the ideation process of character design. W'll figure out WHO the character is and Why they need to look the way they do. I'll provide techniques for the development of your character, using 'the character designer's toolbox'. This will help you organise your thought process and make sure you'll come up with the best possible concepts.
This course deals with the creative process, developing ideas and translating these ideas into communicative designs. In the stories we love, characters are actual personalities we can relate to. In this course, we focus on the ideation process of character design. W'll figure out WHO the character is and Why they need to look the way they do. I'll provide techniques for the development of your character, using 'the character designer's toolbox'. This will help you organise your thought process and make sure you'll come up with the best possible concepts.
Digital painting workout
Just like athletes, artists need to workout to keep up their skills. Get ready to tone your artistic skills as you paint along with Wouter Tulp everyday for 9-weeks with his "Digital Painting Workout"! Over 63 lessons, Wouter will lead you through digital painting exercises that will focus on:
Just like athletes, artists need to workout to keep up their skills. Get ready to tone your artistic skills as you paint along with Wouter Tulp everyday for 9-weeks with his "Digital Painting Workout"! Over 63 lessons, Wouter will lead you through digital painting exercises that will focus on:
- painting landscapes
- painting still-life
- creating portraits
- choosing colors and values
- adding texture
- digital design