Character Art Course Review


May 4-5, 2025

I’m getting closer to the end of Scott Harris’ Character Art Course. I started in 2020 and tried to do as much of the homework as I could. As I learned more, I realized how difficult the homework would be to do legitimately. I wrote down the time commitment he was suggesting and it is massive. Here I’ll do a bit of the math just for fun. See below. If you want to become a good artist, you need to have a lot of muscle memory. Where does that muscle memory come from? From drawing, painting, and so on. If you have time and want to get to it, the homework is a pretty powerful tool. Along with the course which explains why bad drawings look bad, how to improve your character art, and so on, this course is something else. This blog post goes into my experience.

I’m not going to say it’s perfect. If it was, I would’ve finished the course and by now I’d be a skilled artist.. Oh wait. I think it makes sense to draw to show you what I mean. You see M1A1, the first assignment (module 1 assignment 1) tells us to draw a character so that we can look back over time to see how much our art has improved. This is helpful in getting a mindset of growth – that you most certainly need. Because if you’re taking a drawing course, you probably think that your character art looks bad. How do we go about understanding good vs bad?

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Forever Young

A conversation between Javantea and Gemini (artificial intelligence by Google). Javantea's prompts are labeled.

Elixir of Life

Javantea: Do you have any opinion on the meaning of the song Forever Young by Alphaville?

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Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 28

As with other posts in this series, this is the results of a test I took today, Aug 10th, 2021.

kanji test row 28

夏 押 引 曲 倒 距 十 輩 合 拾 落 離 性 親 答 議 二 才 混 覚 棚 職 洗 床 奥 就

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Learning to Read and Write Kanji Row 27

As with other posts in this series, this is the results of a test I took today, Aug 3rd, 2021.

kanji test row 27

雷 宗 田 化 歴 相 頂 類 違 史 朝 真 試 立 喜 住 科 渡 養 数 何 肩 終 役 談

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