Character Art School is now a membership

There’s a version of you whose hands can finally draw what your imagination sees.

I’ve helped more than 300,000 people become that artist. Not with more tutorials — with a path through the entire school, a monthly assignment with a real deadline, and honest eyes on your work. This is where the art in your head finally starts arriving on the page.

Try all of it for 7 days for $10. Every course unlocks the moment you join, then it’s $39/month — and you can cancel in two clicks if it isn’t for you.

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300,000+ students taught  ·  4.6★ instructor rating  ·  Art Director: DAS

The gap every artist knows

You can see it in your head.
You just can’t draw it — yet.

You know the gap. The character is vivid in your head — the pose, the attitude, the light — and what comes out of your pencil is… almost. You’ve watched hundreds of hours of tutorials. You’ve saved references you’ll never open again. And some nights you scroll artists you admire feeling two things at once: I want that, and I’m not getting closer. Hear me on this: the gap was never talent. You’ve just been trying to cross it alone.

01

You learn, but your art doesn’t change

Watching someone else draw feels like progress — that’s what makes it so comforting. But a week later your own work looks the same, because watching was never the thing that changes you. Drawing, under pressure, with feedback — that is.

02

Nobody tells you what's actually wrong

Likes are not feedback. Without someone experienced pointing at the exact error — kindly, specifically — you repeat the same mistake for years, until you quietly start calling it your style.

03

You start strong, then quietly drift

No deadline, nobody waiting for the work. Then one ordinary Tuesday you realise you haven’t drawn in three weeks — and nobody noticed but you. Motivation carries you two weeks. Structure carries you two years.

What actually closes the gap

A path. A deadline. The truth.

Those three things separate the artists who transform from the artists who accumulate references. Everything in this membership exists to give them to you, on repeat, every single month: a path so you never wonder what’s next, a deadline so your art gets finished, and honest critique so you always know why.

A path, not a playlist

The complete library, laid out in the order that actually builds skill — fundamentals, construction, anatomy, perspective, colour, rendering, style. You never have to wonder what to do next again. You just draw.

A deadline that gets work finished

One assignment every month, with a real cut-off. Finished work beats perfect work — and finished work is the only thing a portfolio, or a new identity as an artist, is ever built from.

Work reviewed out loud

Your work gets looked at properly and reviewed on camera — what’s working, what isn’t, and exactly why. The first time you hear the honest truth about your drawing, kindly told, something shifts that a thousand tutorials never touched.

Included with every tier

Nine complete courses. One membership.

Over a hundred hours of structured, no-fluff instruction — plus new lessons and teardowns added every month while you’re a member. All of it opens on day one, for $10. But more video was never the point. The point is what each of these does to your art.
Character Art School: Complete Character Drawing course

Complete Character Drawing

The flagship. Where stiff poses and lucky sketches become constructed, living characters — gesture, heads, hands, expression and design, the spine of everything else.
Character Art School: Complete Coloring and Painting course

Complete Coloring & Painting

Colour stops being a gamble. A repeatable workflow for light, colour and mood — so your finished characters finally feel finished.
Manga Art School: Complete Anime and Manga Drawing course

Manga Art School

Authentic anime and manga construction — proportion, stylisation, panels and expression, so your style becomes a choice you make, not a limit you’re stuck with.
Anatomy Art School: Complete Skeletal Drawing course

Anatomy Art School

Figures that hold up from any angle — not just the one you practised. Drawing people stops feeling like guesswork and starts feeling like construction.
Perspective Art School: Complete Drawing course

Perspective Art School

Draw in 3D on purpose. Environments stop being the thing you crop out and start being the world your characters live in.
The Complete Art Fundamentals course

Complete Art Fundamentals

Value, edges, shape, composition, observation — the quiet principles that make people say a drawing “just works” without knowing why.
The Complete Procreate Masterclass course

Complete ProCreate Masterclass

The iPad becomes a professional studio — brushes, layers, workflow, and your first fully finished digital illustration.
The Complete Copic Markers course

Complete Copic Markers

Traditional colour done properly — blending, lighting and shading with the industry’s markers, on real paper, in your real sketchbook.
Art and Fear: Overcome Roadblocks to Productivity course

Creativity and Fear

The course about the blank page. Beat the fear, finish the work, keep showing up — the artist’s real battle, fought and won.

The transformation

What changes in your first ninety days

Not vague inspiration. Specific, visible change in the work you make — the kind you see by flipping back three months in your own sketchbook and barely recognising the hand that drew the early pages.
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  • ✓You stop guessing at anatomy and start constructing figures that hold up from any angle — and drawing people starts to feel like power instead of luck.
  • ✓Your characters read instantly — silhouette, shape language and design that say who someone is before a word is read. People start remembering what you draw.
  • ✓Colour and light stop being accidents. You light a character deliberately, get the mood you intended — and know you could do it again tomorrow.
  • ✓You flip back thirty days in your sketchbook and the older pages look like someone else drew them. In a way, someone else did.
  • ✓You finish things. Three assignments in, you have finished pieces instead of a folder of abandoned sketches — the first pages of a real body of work.
  • ✓You post a piece without the apologetic caption. You’ve heard your work critiqued like a professional’s — and saying I’m an artist finally stops feeling like a stretch.
Scott Harris, founder and instructor at Character Art School

Your mentor

Hi, I’m Scott. I built the school I needed.

I’m a professional character artist, illustrator and concept designer — Art Director of DAS: School of Art and Design and Character Art School, author of Draw Manga Style: A Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide (Quarry Books), with work for Sony, Epic and Oxford Press. But none of that is the part that matters to you. The part that matters is that I remember, precisely, what the gap feels like — years of seeing characters in my head that my hands couldn’t deliver, while no amount of tutorial-watching moved the needle. What finally changed my art wasn’t more content. It was structure, deadlines and honest critique. So that’s what I built.
My teaching is straight-forward and deliberately free of fluff. In the membership, that matters more than ever — you’re not paying me for more video. You’re paying for my eyes on your work, and for the artist that finished work makes of you.

300,000+ students  ·  4.6★ instructor rating  ·  Udemy Partner  ·  Published author  ·  Sony · Epic · Oxford Press

Thousands of 5-star reviews

Students who were exactly where you are

Every one of these students started with the same gap between what they could see and what they could draw. These reviews are from Complete Character Drawing — one of the nine courses your membership opens on day one.
★★★★★Rated 5 out of 5
“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.”

Nick Anderson

★★★★★Rated 5 out of 5
“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.”

Nicholas Ricardo Perez

★★★★★Rated 5 out of 5
“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.”

G. Seydack

★★★★★Rated 5 out of 5
“I have spent $100’s on art courses in the past, and so far in this course I have learned so much about fundamentals and new ways to look at art that I never learned in the past. So far I’m very impressed with the course.”

Aidan Solorzano

★★★★★Rated 5 out of 5
“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!”

Vashni Briggs

★★★★★Rated 5 out of 5
“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.”

Zahid

Membership

Choose how far you want to go

Both tiers open the entire Character Art School library. The difference is how much of my attention comes with it.

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Studio

The whole school, a monthly deadline, and your work reviewed.

$10 for your first 7 days

then $39/month, tax included

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  1. Today Pay $10. Every course unlocks immediately.
  2. In 7 days $39/month begins — unless you have cancelled by then.
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$29.25/month

billed $351 once a year, tax included You save $117 a year.

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What you get

  • Full course library, including monthly new releases.
  • One new structured lesson or teardown per month
  • Monthly assignment with a hard deadline
  • Group critique call, recorded — submit work, watch the review whether or not you attend live
  • Community Access

Only 30 Seats

Atelier

For artists going all the way — with my personal attention

$199/month

Includes tax. Cancel any time, from your dashboard.

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What you get

  • Everything in Studio
  • A personal recorded critique of your work every month
  • Weekly Group live session (2 hrs): Live Demos and Critique
  • Portfolio Review Track - Build a Legendary Portfolio
  • Direct line for questions, during working hours

Not ready to commit? Look around the whole library first on the Studio 7-day trial, then upgrade whenever you want.

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Free Resource Pack

Get 4GB+ of my character drawing resources, free

Tutorials, drawing demos and a hand-pose reference library you can use in your own work today. No membership needed — just tell me where to send it.

  • 2 art tutorials — Drawing Workflow and Line Art Edges
  • 7 dynamic drawing demos in a range of styles
  • 2 complete workflow overviews
  • Over 2GB of hand-pose photo references

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Before you join

The questions everyone asks

I'm a complete beginner. Is this too advanced?

No — beginners often transform fastest here, because they never build the bad habits the rest of us had to unlearn. The library starts at first principles — how to hold a line, how to build a form — and the recommended path tells you exactly where to begin.

I'm already intermediate. Will this be too basic?

Skip ahead. The library is yours in any order — and the monthly assignment plus critique is where intermediate artists grow most, because specific, honest feedback on your own work is almost impossible to find anywhere else.

How much time does this take each month?

The assignment is designed for a handful of focused sessions. Members who put in three to five hours a week see clear, visible change. Everything is recorded, so a busy month never punishes you.

What if I fall behind?

Nothing is lost. Courses, past assignments and every recorded critique stay available for as long as you’re a member — you pick up exactly where you stopped, no penalty, no shame.

How does the $10 trial work?

Your first seven days cost $10 and open everything — all nine courses, the monthly lesson, the assignment and the group critique. On day seven Studio becomes $39/month. Cancel before then and that $10 is all you ever pay; cancel later and your access runs to the end of the month you’ve already paid for. Two clicks in your dashboard either way — no cancellation fee, no phone call.

What's the real difference between Studio and Atelier?

Studio gives you the whole school plus the group critique. Atelier adds my personal attention: your own recorded critique every month, a weekly live session, a portfolio track, and a direct line to me for questions. It’s capped at 30 people so that attention stays real.

A year from now you’ll have a body of work — or another folder of saved tutorials.

The artist you want to be is on the other side of finished work. Not another tutorial — a path, a deadline, and someone who will tell you the truth about your drawing. Seven days and $10 is all it takes to find out what your hands can really do.
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