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Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks

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Overview

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Explore your daydreams and tell a story that makes children smile with watercolor animal characters
  • Introduction
  • About Characters and Stories
  • Character Development
  • Scene Development
  • Final project
All great stories begin with great characters, especially in children’s books. To tell memorable stories that connect with kids, illustrator Kevin Waldron often looks to animals for the wide range of creative freedom they allow, developing playful protagonists with their own personalities and voice.

In this course, learn how to start illustrating animal characters for children’s books. Discover Kevin’s creative process for developing characters with unique personalities and see how to use them as the starting point for creating your own storybook. Explore the creative possibilities of animal characters in storybooks and give life to an original creative idea.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • What Will We Do in This Course?
  • Materials
  • My Children's Stories and the Characters I Designed 1
  • My Children's Stories and the Characters I Designed 2
  • Creating Characters
  • Documentation and References
  • Character Development: Sketches 1
  • Character Development: Sketches 2
  • Character Design: Adding Color 1
  • Character Design: Adding Color 2
  • Character Interaction 1
  • Character Interaction 2
  • Sketching the Elements in the Scene
  • Composition of the Scene 1
  • Composition of the Scene 2
  • Completing the Final Scene 1
  • Completing the Final Scene 2
  • Completing the Final Scene 3
  • Completing the Final Scene 4
  • Final Thoughts
  • Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks

Taught by

kevin waldron

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