70 Exercises For Perfecting Stylized Character Creation Coloso -
Instructor: Sorie Kim (a renowned illustrator and instructor known for her work with brands like Facebook, YouTube, and The Washington Post, and for her popular courses on Domestika and School of Visual Arts).
Platform: Coloso (a Korean-based online education platform specializing in creative fields, with English subtitles available).
Format: Pre-recorded video lessons + downloadable resources (brushes, reference sheets, exercise templates). Instructor: Sorie Kim (a renowned illustrator and instructor
Target Audience: Intermediate to advanced digital artists who already understand basic anatomy and digital painting (e.g., Procreate, Photoshop) but struggle with designing expressive, appealing stylized characters from scratch.
You might ask: Why not 30 exercises? Why not 100? You might ask: Why not 30 exercises
Behavioral psychology suggests that skill acquisition requires a "critical mass" of repetition. Ten exercises gives you familiarity. Thirty gives you comfort. Seventy pushes you past the plateau of frustration and into the realm of instinct.
By the time you finish exercise 68, you are no longer thinking about how to draw a stylized elbow. You just do it. The course is specifically engineered to induce "flow state"—where your conscious mind shuts off and your artistic intuition takes over. This is where the magic happens
Goal: Expressive, memorable faces.
This is where the magic happens. You stop worrying about realistic bone structures and start worrying about rhythm.
Goal: Train shape language and readability.
Goal: Master exaggerated anatomy.