You're not untalented. You were just taught in the wrong order.
You don't need a free evening. You need a plan for the next 20 minutes. I've put the lessons in the right order and kept them short. Each day you watch one, draw, and tick it off. In a few weeks, put your Day 1 page next to your latest one and you'll see it.
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Day 1 · your 20-minute win
From Back to Drawing, the 20-minute path on the Start Here page
Most of the long videos are optional real-time demos where you watch me draw a full piece. Watch them on a quiet evening, or never.
I asked. You answered.
I recently asked my students and subscribers one question: what's actually stopping you? Here's what came back, again and again.
None of that is a you problem. It's a plan problem.
Most courses assume you've got hours. Most people start with the character they want before they've learned the few simple shapes that hold it together. So it falls apart, they blame themselves, and they stop. After teaching 500,000+ students, I don't think that's a talent problem. I think it's an order problem, and I can fix the order.
Time saved
It goes on picking tutorials, sitting through long videos for one tip, and starting over when something looks off. Here are the four big leaks, and what Studio does about each one.
Leak 01
You scroll, you pick, you second-guess, and the evening's gone.
Fixes it
A plan that picks today's lessons for you. Three 90-day paths, one week at a time. You open it, do today's bit, close it.
Week 1 Seeing simply
Assignment: 5 objects as shapes, then forms
Leak 02
You wait through a long video for the one thing you needed, and there's no time left to draw.
Fixes it
Short lessons. The typical lesson is under 5 minutes, and nearly three in four are under 10. The core teaching lessons average about 5 minutes, and half are under 4. Watch one, then draw.
Leak 03
Rendering and style on top of shaky basics. It looks off and you can't say why, sometimes for years.
Fixes it
The basics in the right order: shapes, line, depth, gesture, proportion, then the body, faces and hands. When the underdrawing is solid, the rest stops falling apart.
Leak 04
With no yardstick, every drawing gets compared to the picture in your head or someone's best post online. It loses every time, so you stop.
Fixes it
A "check yourself" list every week, and a Day 1 drawing to compare against later.
Check yourself
"Mind-boggling! The course puts stuff that would otherwise take years, if ever, to learn, into a few hours of learning, and lots of hours to practice while watching a master demonstrating."
Your day
Here's the honest maths. On the 20-minute path, the video adds up to about 6 hours across the whole 90 days. Spread over five days a week, that's around 5 minutes of watching a day. The rest of your time is pencil on paper, which is where the learning happens.
Watch today's short lesson.
Draw the exercise while it's fresh.
Close it. Go live your life. At the end of each week, tick the "check yourself" list.
Missed a day? Missed a week? Just carry on from where you stopped. Nothing locks, and nobody's counting.
The fix
Here's how the 20-minute path, Back to Drawing, is built. These are the real week titles. Each step makes the next one easier, so nothing's wasted.
On Back to Drawing, your very first lesson is called The Fear of No Talent. Then it's a 10-minute messy sketch of whatever's on your desk. That's your "before". In a few months you'll look at it and see how far you've come, with your own eyes, on your own paper. That's where real confidence comes from. Not from me telling you you're doing great.
See all three paths week by week →Your daily plan
You don't need all nine courses this week. You need the next 20 minutes. Each path is 90 days, five days a week, and pulls the right lessons from across the whole school.
For: Anime, manga and OC fans.
"Draw your own characters so they look like themselves from every angle."
Includes: a whole consistency week for head turns, then expressions, hair and hands, ending with your Day 1 drawing next to your week-12 sheet.
Lightest path
20 min a dayFor: You used to draw, life got busy, and you miss it. Or you're starting from scratch with not much time.
"Get back into drawing for you, after a long gap. Nothing is graded and nothing locks."
Ends with: one finished drawing of your character, then your week-1 page next to week 12.
For: You want to do this for work one day: games, comics, animation.
"You finish with a production turnaround and a character-in-scene piece."
Rather go course by course? That works too. Pick the one you're most excited about and go start to finish.
You picked: Back to Drawing
After you join, open Start Here and pick Back to Drawing. Day 1 takes 20 minutes.
Confidence
Drawing isn't a gift some people got and you didn't. In my experience it's a stack of small skills, and they add up when you learn them in order. So Studio builds confidence out of proof:
Eye line, ears and jaw at the same heights in all views?Week 3, Your Character, Any Angle
Short questions you can answer yourself, so you can tell whether you got it.
A dated drawing from the start, and a look back at the end. The only comparison that counts here is you against you. Not other artists, not AI, not anyone's highlight reel.
Something to aim at every month. Submit your piece from your dashboard for my recorded group critique video, and learn from everyone's review, not just your own.
The critique is a group one, recorded. A personal critique of your own work every month is part of Atelier.
And for the fear itself, one of the nine courses, Creativity and Fear, is all about the fear of no talent, of failure and of not improving fast enough. 24 lessons, all under 4 minutes.
"Great course. Lots of useful information. Scott is a VERY good teacher. He presents things in a clear, confident and professional manner. He also manages to transfer his confidence to a student :) So, I absolutely recommend it, especially for beginners ( like me)."
I hear this a lot, usually from people in their 40s, 50s and 60s. Here's the thing: drawing isn't a sport. Nobody's timing you, and you aren't racing a 19-year-old. You're learning where an eye line goes, and that works the same at 48 as at 18. The difference is that you've got less time, so I built Back to Drawing for exactly that: 20 minutes a day, nothing graded, nothing locks.
You probably weren't failing. You were missing a plan and a yardstick. This time you get both. You're not "doing a course". You're doing today's 20 minutes.
Good news: you don't need it. The structure does the heavy lifting. Today's lessons are already picked, there's one small exercise a week, and a checklist tells you when you're done.
Then that's a rest day. Seriously. The plan is five days a week, not seven, and if you miss a week, nothing happens. On a low day, watch one 3-minute lesson and don't draw at all. That still counts. Little and often beats forcing it.
You're not competing with anyone. The only comparison that matters is your first page against your latest one.
"How fast will I actually improve?"
I won't promise you a number of days. Anyone who does is guessing. What I can tell you is why it's quicker than going it alone: the basics come in the right order, the lessons are short so most of your time is drawing, and each week has a checklist so you know you've got it before you move on. Here's what's real: by the end of Back to Drawing you'll have drawn faces, hands, a full body and one finished character of your own, with about 60 short sessions of practice behind you. That's a lot more than starting and stopping ever adds up to. Draw your "before" on Day 1. Look at it again in a few weeks.
If it isn't for you, you get your money back. Even the $10.
Everything in Studio
A 20-minute plan that picks your lessons.
Three 90-day paths at 20, 30–40 or 45–60 minutes a day.
Saves you: deciding what to do next.
All nine courses.
Nearly 500 lessons, and the typical one is under 5 minutes.
Saves you: buying course after course.
The basics, in the right order.
Art Fundamentals, Perspective, Anatomy and Complete Character Drawing, woven into the paths.
Saves you: years of "it looks off".
Proof you're improving.
A Day 1 drawing and a "check yourself" list every week.
Saves you: the guessing.
A monthly assignment and the recorded group critique.
Each week of your path ends with one small exercise (that's your practice). Once a month there's an optional bigger assignment you can submit from your dashboard for the group critique.
Saves you: repeating the same mistake for months.
People drawing alongside you.
The Character Art School Discord, where you can share each week's assignment.
Saves you: drawing alone and losing steam.
Studio doesn't include personal one-to-one critique. That's what Atelier is for.
How the nine courses fit together. The paths mix them for you, so you don't have to work out the order.
Foundations
Characters and confidence
All nine unlock the moment you join.
Every course. A plan that fits 20 minutes. A monthly assignment, the group critique and the Discord. $10 for your first 7 days.
Every course unlocks today. Cancel any time from your dashboard.
Thousands of 5-star reviews
These are from my courses, and every one of those courses is included in Studio from day one.
★★★★★
"Phenomenal course! I went from 0 art or drawing experience drawing stick figures to being able to draw cool 3-dimensional cartoon art from only this course! I did not even learn from other sources. This course has the quality of a college level course. I could see myself learning this in a college I paid 1000 dollars for."
★★★★★
"I purchased this course as a last resort in my search for learning how to draw. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the steps and guides in this course are easy to follow and replicable. Thank you very much Scott!"
★★★★★
"I feel I've got the best painting course I have ever had. The instructor has the special ability to communicate all the ideas in a very attractive and well-structured manner. It saves a bunch of time to learn lots of useful stuff. That's just amazing."
★★★★★
"As difficult as I find drawing to be I definitely have come a long way. From barely drawing heads and faces to fully illustrating characters from my imagination."
★★★★★
"The instruction is clear and concise which makes it engaging to me. The realtime demos are great as they really show how the drawings are done so that the student's perception of time is adjusted to a more realistic one rather than the distortion that happens with nothing but time-lapse. This course is the glue that connects a lot of info that I've gotten from many books."
★★★★★
"Amazing techniques and tips from basics to advanced levels. If you're a beginner or struggling to learn basics, just start learning from this guy. Its a value for money course."
500,000+ students have learned with me so far.
Your teacher
I'm a character artist, illustrator and concept designer. I wrote Draw Manga Style for Quarry Books, and I've made work for Sony, Epic and Oxford Press.
More than 500,000 students have learned with me. The thing I hear most isn't "I can't draw". It's "I don't have time". So my teaching is straightforward and deliberately free of fluff: one idea, I show it, then you draw.
I'd rather you spent 20 minutes drawing than an hour watching me.
— Scott
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Yes. Back to Drawing is built for 20 minutes a day, five days a week, and most of that is drawing, not watching. Even 15 minutes counts. Little and often beats a big weekend session you never get round to.
Nothing happens. Just carry on from where you stopped. Nothing locks, and nobody's counting.
About half the lessons are under 5 minutes, and nearly three in four are under 10. Most of the long ones are full real-time demos you can watch whenever you like, or skip.
Open Start Here and pick a path. Day 1 is two short lessons and one quick drawing. After that, each week is a few short lessons, one assignment and a "check yourself" list. There's no level to reach before you start, and nothing is graded.
Most people have. Usually a course hands you everything at once and leaves you to work out the order. Here, the path tells you what today is, keeps each sitting short, and gives you a checklist so you know when you're done. If you fall off, you pick up where you left off.
Pick Industry Foundations, or jump straight into any course. Anatomy, Perspective, Coloring & Painting and the real-time demos go deep.
Yes. That's what Your Character, Any Angle is for: 30–40 minutes a day, with a whole week on head turns, then expressions, hair and hands, all on your own character.
On Studio, you can submit your monthly assignment from your dashboard for my recorded group critique video. A personal recorded critique of your own work every month is part of Atelier, which I keep to 30 students.
Fair question. If you bought my nine courses one by one, they're $149 each. Studio gets you all of them for less than one a month. But don't take my word for it. Spend $10 on the first 7 days, do Day 1, and see if the 20 minutes actually fits your life. If it doesn't, cancel from your dashboard, and if you ask within 14 days, I'll refund the $10 too.
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One short lesson, one drawing, and a checklist at the end of the week. Do that a few times a week and in 90 days you'll have a stack of drawings and a clear look at how far you've come. It's all ready for you tonight.
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