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The Beginners Guide to Blender and Stylised illustrations By KeelanJon

This is my introductory Blender course for artists, illustrators, and even general hobbyists.
With over 15 hours of content and all completely narrated and guided.

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We’ll start by creating a bright and beautiful environment.

After the initial warm up, we’ll swiftly move on to get started on the first project, a bright and beautiful stylised environment. We’ll cover the following topics.

Modeling basic shapes
Non-destructive modeling with modifiers
Materials and shaders
Lighting and HDRI lighting
Rendering in Cycles and Eevee Render Engines

PROJECT ONE

Creating our first simple stylised character model.

Now it’s time to move onto our first character, I chose this cartoony little guy as a straightforward introduction to creating humanoid characters. During this project we’ll learn about the following;

Character modeling
Materials and Procedural textures
What is character rigging
Preparing a model for rigging
Manually building and customising rigs from the ground up
Posing the character model
Lighting and Rendering in Eevee and Cycles

PROJECT TWO

An introduction to the basics of sculpting in Blender.

We’ve covered a lot of basic models skills, and now it’s time to start diving into the sculpting tools. We’ll start with creating this simple Pokémon style 3D model to get familiar with the tools.

Learn the basics of sculpting in Blender.
Learn about the importance of a blockout
Understand the Remeshing tools
Materials and shaders
Lighting and HDRI lighting
Rendering in Cycles and Eevee Render Engines

PROJECT THREE

Creating our more advanced stylised character model.

Now it’s time to take it up a level, and get stuck into the main techniques I use everyday to create my 3D models for both personal and client work. During this project we’ll cover the following;

My entire character sculpting process
Sculpting Face sets
Importing reference images into Blender
Sculpting clothing
Fast methods of topology optimisation
UV Unwrapping & Packing
Texture Painting
Streamlined Rigging workflows using Rigify
And much more!

PROJECT FOUR

WHAT MY STUDENTS SAY

Don’t take my word for it, here’s some feedback from many of my enrolled students 💖

“Amazing teacher on so many levels. Humble, humorous, precise, doesn't miss anything, even updating for my current Blender 4.3.2. ”

—J Smith

“Great course, I don't regret my purchase at all! I've had the opportunity to watch and learn from many courses like this one, but I find it by far the most complete. I came mainly to learn the sculpting part, but I've come away learning about modeling in general, as well as rigging, which used to terrify me before! I highly recommend it! PS: the teacher is very “relaxing” if you can call it that way; no headaches, pleasant to listen to, I never get tired of hearing him, even when I'm going through several parts of the course..”

— Julie BOUILLON

“I found Keelan on Instagram. When I saw he had a course I knew I had to get it and I was not disappointed. On the contrary, his teaching methods are great, he is funny and has a smooth voice. I'd recommend this course to anyone trying to learn blender. I look forward to all future lessons he adds to the course and any other course(s) he might create. Cheers!.”

— Daniel Alba

“It's amazing! I'm eagerly waiting for another course. I'm certain I'll buy it. The way you teach is fantastic. ”

—Xavier Chico

“Super easy to follow and Keelan brings lots of fun to the Blender sculpting! Highly recommend!”

— Wenbo Zhao

“Keelan's class is among the first I've taken in my Blender journey. It's a challenging program that pulls you into a dozen directions, so I am glad I took Keelan's course. The projects are fun and I had great results. Plus, he keeps adding new chapters at no additional cost. ”

—Taylor

I love seeing the amazing results from students who have enrolled in my courses, here’s some of the latest 💖

STUDENT RESULTS

If you’d like to see your work featured below, please send it my email address at info@keelsdesign.co.uk,
and your name or social media for accreditation.

An awesome take on the sculpting project in the course by Alex Stovba.

An amazing reimagining of Scrooge McDuck by Diego Leal.

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