The Beginners Guide to Blender and Stylised illustrations Course - by KeelanJon

The official introductory Blender course for artists, illustrators, and even general hobbyists by Keelan Jon.

Jump start your Blender journey with this beginners guide to Blender and fun stylised illustrations. You'll follow along with YouTuber KeelanJon, while he introduces you to the fundamentals of Blender, and swiftly gets you moving into the fun stuff so you don't get bored while learning the basics. You will make a variety of different illustrations, from stylised environments, to characters and even the fundamentals of sculpting.

"I want this to be my number one place for beginners looking to get started with Blender. This is an ever evolving course and you will have access to it for life, including future module releases, updates, bonus content and materials." - KeelanJon

What you will make:

• Warm up to the basics of modeling with a sword, rocket and car

• Vibrant Coffee Mug illustration
• Bright and colourful micro-environment
• Fun rubberhose style character illustration
• Cute Pokemon Sculpture
• Stylised Donald Duck Character Sculpt
• More illustrations and exercsies as they're released...

Along the way you will learn these fundamental skills:

• Modeling
• Rigging
• Texturing
• Sculpting
• Lighting
• Rendering
• Compositing
  

Here's a list of some upcoming updates that have been recommended by you:

• Rigify Rigging Workflow
• Retopology Deep dive and tools
• More beginner sculpting exercises

As of 02/02/2024 this course is currently in Version 2.0 with the release of the intermediate sculpting chapter, featuring my complete stylised character sculpting process that I use daily. To ensure this course is always up to date and error free I need your help, please send any questions, feedback, recommendations or module requests to info@keelsdesign.co.uk. All project files featured will also be available for download.

Blender is a free open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D-printed models, motion graphics, video game models and much more. This course is designed for complete beginners, so don’t wait, kick start your blender journey today.