Drawing Dynamic Creatures
Roadmap
Ape Anatomy Bootcamp - The Skeleton
Ape Anatomy Bootcamp - The Muscles
Creating Stronger Gesture Drawings for your Creature Designs
Study from Life - Ape Reference Videos
Learning from the Masters
Shape Breakdown - Combining Species
The Final Project
As an introduction to this course, I'll show you how I break down the features of animals, starting with apes, in order to use their traits in the imaginative world of creature design.
Newest
squeen
5mo
Pardon my mess Mr. Coleman, I attempted to copy one of your wolf sketches and kept adding stuff. You have a wonderful flair with animal posture. Kley + Frazetta influenced, to be sure!
Yours
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ei4a7iHVgAMOS0d?format=jpg&name=large
Mine

Thomas Vang Pedersen
5mo
This is my chimpanzee+lion creature. It was a hard challenge to start off with cause I'm always draw from reference, but it was surprisingly more fun to play around with my imagination instead off being bound by the reference.
Trying to draw fast, fluid and loose just turned the lines into more scratchy and less fluid. More practices is needed🙈
Already loving the course and I can't wait for lessons about drawing from videos instead of pictures.

joseph chalmers
6mo
Here are my ape creatures. Wanted to do a really small, bird-monkey.

Stevie Roder
6mo
Here is my monkey design I did last night without reference all from memory. For my fantasy approach, I thought it would be fun to combine my monkey with an bettle like features morph thing going on here. This was fun to create took me about 30 minutes mostly on thinking on what fun creature to combine my monkey with mostly. I can't wait to see how this class is going to take me David Colemen. fun first assignment.

wayne_4360
6mo
spider + monkey!

Roland Varga
6mo
I went with the vampire ape. Inventing things without reference is HARD!

Phoebe Taylor
6mo
I like the blending of features on the face.. and the very apelike poses

yamssense
6mo
it looks interesting. I used to draw my snake in https://snake-game.io for 2 hours! It's hard and waste lots of time but I love it!

Ren Zhi Lim
6mo
Mixing up ape with crab/lobster
Dre Torres
6mo
How often will new lessons come out?

bernard_van_aalst
6mo
Mixture of ape and secretary bird, in conversation with its favorite enemy.
Yi Huang
7mo
First trial without reference. Quite fun, indeed!
James Connolly
7mo
This was hard to do without reference and from memory!
Gift Cards
Gift card for art students to use on anything in the Proko store
About instructor
Illustrator working in film as a designer and storyboard artist- known as the "animal guy" for my passion for doodling animals. insta @davidsdoodles