School of Visual Storytelling

This has been extremely helpful with drawing mammals. I cant wait for them to do one for birds, reptiles, amphibians, and possibly insects and such. Would have also loved a time or 2 on rendering fur since its a mammals class. Other than that it's the most helpful animals drawing lesson I've seen.

It goes to the basics of drawing mammals and gives some practical information that really makes all the difference when drawing from imagination. Those principles can be applied very easily. I wish there was a more in-depth course on some animals. Like picking some animals, packing them in courses (of 2 or 3 for example) and going a little further on them. Anyway, this is a great place to start drawing animals :)

Drawing animals has been the hardest thing next to drawing vehicles for me. I have only just started to manage average efforts. I would have loved to have had a course like this to go to at the time I was teaching myself. I would have like to seen a human-like sitting position of the horse. I'm finding this a bit of a challenge to master. I want to draw two dogs sitting like humans for a comic strip. A least I understand more now about the skeleton after this course, and that a happy, happy thing.

This is the first video I activated and watched completely. Loved it and will use the techniques expertly demonstrated.

I loved the understanding of anatomy and how with that knowledge you can then create poses and structure your animals to look more realistic and well proportioned. Really good overview. You guys rock.

This was very compact, but very useful for me in seeing how Jake works and how to look at anaimals and their structure and bones and build above it.

I was skipping this class all the time, but I am glad I did not skip it this time... and to my discovery, an animal structure is much simpler than I thought :D thank you for showing us that!

Loved watching Jake explain basic mammal structure and enjoyed Will's questions and challenges. Really fun to watch!

'How to draw animals' class is great:) its really interesting how you can take animal body into parts, simplify it and then build it up again in any pose that you want.

I feel this was a great introduction to drawing animals. I've previously studied at random for a few minor designs, so I was curious about this course. It definitely helped fill some holes in the foundation I've been building, and quickly boosted my confidence to sketch some basic animals. This is a nice start to expand upon, and overall, I'm very glad I checked it out. Would love to see more creature design courses in the future, including more types of animals (birds, reptiles, etc).

Great course, I learned a bunch and it was just the right amount of information I needed to draw animals. I was the same as Will, I always thought animals were way to complex and therefore I tried to avoid them. But after this course I'm more confident to start drawing animals. Jake and Will, you should do more duo teaching classes like this. And the PDF and PSD-file with Jake's drawings from the course, are nice little extra's, it even feels like some kind of reward. I would love to see more of these in the future.