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Make Art, Stories, & Characters People Care About

Master Visual Storytelling in six steps:

You’ve got a passion for creating characters and worlds. But maybe you feel that mastering the elements of good character design and translating your character’s unique story is darn near impossible.

Worse still, there’s loads of information out there and that only makes the struggle that much harder.

Here at Character Design Forge, teaching character design and digital art is our passion.

In fact, we’ve built a online program around creatives like you who don’t know where to start but know your ultimate goal is to master your digital art and character design skills.

This interactive course covers six areas of character design: drawing, expression, story, design, and rendering. Each module guides you through a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand lesson aimed to make you a master of each element of great design.

Make Better Characters and Become a Better Artist:

The course gave me the confidence and skills to actually pursue art as a hobby. Brookes taught me the fundamentals of drawing... all while being one of the friendliest and straight-forward art instructions I’ve had.
— Kai, Course Student
One thing I love about the Learn Character Design course is how approachable it is no matter your skill level. From the very beginning, you’re taught simple drawing exercises that take away the fear of a blank white page and make building confidence a lot easier... It’s only been a few weeks and I’ve already seen a huge improvement in my artwork!
— U. Koroma, Course Student
I wasn’t disappointed. I frequently go back to modules as a reference for my work, it’s the gift that keeps on giving!
— Dennis, Chicago-based artist and Course Student

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I’m Brookes Eggleston, founder of Character Design Forge.

I’ve worked as a Character Designer, Illustrator, Story Artist, and 3D Modeler for over 15 years. I’ve worked with companies such as Disney, Pinkfong, Epson and Fablevision.

I know how difficult the process of creating unique characters can be.

That’s why together with my wife Tay, we’ve created Character Design Forge: a community where artists can create the best versions of their unique characters their stories. We love empowering creatives like you.

It’s also why I’ve created the Learn Character Design course. It’s a comprehensive online course made especially for passionate artists looking to perfect their character design skills in an easy-to-understand way.

Character Design Forge Covers Five Arenas of Character Design:

Each topic relates to a specific field of character design. We share videos tailored to each topic in order to help you improve a specific facet of character design and become a more well-rounded artist— digital and otherwise. So if your desire is to create an amazing comic or learn how to properly render a 3D design, you’ve come to the right place!

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