Animal & Creature Drawing – Complete Guide by Marc Brunet

Marc Brunet Animal & Creature Drawing – Complete Guide is a self-paced video course taught by Marc Brunet, a former senior artist at Blizzard Entertainment and the founder of Cubebrush. It starts with the anatomy of animals, moves on to drawing real animals, and ends with designing believable creatures of your own. The course runs to more than four hours across four lessons and comes with bonus assignments. It is aimed at beginners and sold as an instant download on Cubebrush for $45.

Drawing animals convincingly is a skill many artists avoid, yet it sits at the heart of creature design for games, films and fantasy illustration. This course is packaged from the Animal & Creature Drawing class in Marc's ART School programme, where it appears in Term 5 alongside Character Design. It gives you that one class on its own, so you can build up animal knowledge without signing up for the full curriculum.

What You Will Learn

The course moves from observation to invention, so the creatures you design rest on real anatomy. Topics include:

• An overview of how to approach animal and creature drawing
• The main structures of animal anatomy
• How animal anatomy differs from human anatomy
• Drawing real animals with a sense of form and weight
• Using knowledge of real animals as a base for invented creatures
• Designing creatures that feel plausible
• Practising each stage with bonus assignments

Who Is Marc Brunet Animal & Creature Drawing For?

The short answer: artists who want to draw animals and creatures with more confidence. It suits illustration students, hobbyists who enjoy fantasy art, and anyone interested in creature design for games or films. The page labels it for beginners, so you do not need previous experience of animal anatomy to follow it.

It is less suited to someone looking for a single animal species in depth or for realistic wildlife painting. The emphasis is on understanding structure and turning it into design. It is also not a software course, so the lessons focus on drawing rather than tools.

Course Structure

The course is a single chapter of four lessons:

• 1. Overview: an introduction to the course and its approach
• 2. Animal Anatomy: the structures you need to understand before drawing animals
• 3. Animal Drawing: applying anatomy to drawings of real animals
• 4. Creature Drawing: combining what you have learned to design creatures

The download contains four files totalling 5.2 GB. Each lesson is long, so it helps to watch in shorter sessions and pause to draw along. The bonus assignments give you a way to test each stage before moving on.

Price and Access

Marc Brunet Animal & Creature Drawing – Complete Guide costs $45, paid once, as an instant download in MP4 format from Cubebrush, which describes itself as an AI-free marketplace. If you already own the complete ART School pack, this class is already included. Marc offers to refund the pack if you later upgrade to the full 10-term ART School; the page asks you to send him a private message. The full programme also includes private weekly streams, which are not part of this pack.

About the Instructor

Marc Brunet has more than 20 years in the industry and held senior roles at Blizzard Entertainment. He founded Cubebrush and has worked for Wacom, Clip Studio Paint and ImagineFX. He left his industry job to build ART School, the programme this course comes from.

Things to Consider

• Time: four hours of video plus assignments; plan for several weeks if you draw along and practise between lessons.
• Downloads: the pack is 5.2 GB, so check storage space before you start.
• Reference: keep a collection of animal photos to hand; drawing from reference between lessons speeds up progress.
• Feedback: there is no personal critique, so share your studies with peers or an online art community.
• Next steps: Marc's Character Design – Complete Guide comes from the same ART School term and pairs well with this course.
• Upgrade path: if you plan to take the full ART School later, note the refund offer for this pack.

How to Get the Most From It

Start a dedicated sketchbook for the course. After the anatomy lesson, fill pages with quick studies of a few animals, such as a dog, a horse and a big cat. When you reach creature drawing, combine features from those studies. Repeating the assignments a month later shows how much your understanding has grown.

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For the full syllabus and pricing, visit the official Marc Brunet website.

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Last verified: November 12, 2026