Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks
Creating Characters
A course by Kevin Waldron , Illustrator and Children’s Book Author
Joined December 2019
Joined December 2019
About the video: Creating Characters
Overview
“In this lesson, I will talk about where I find inspiration for my characters. I will offer advice on choosing your characters and I will pick a new one of my own to begin building a story around for this course. I will outline my early thought process as I begin my sketches. ”
In this video lesson Kevin Waldron addresses the topic: Creating Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks. Explore your daydreams and tell a story that makes children smile with watercolor animal characters.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating Characters Now I'll talk about creating characters. It's my favourite thing to do. I'll show you how I do it and how you can create your own. And that all begins in sketchbooks. Sketchbooks are the most important thing. I encourage you to keep them. I have dozens and dozens of them, taking up all the space in my studio, on the shelves, that I carry around with me, and sketchbooks that I buy in cities that I visit to draw. The best gift for an illustrator or an artist is a sketchbook to use. It's an invitation to fill something with ideas, there's no better gift. I was gonna start b...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Kevin Waldron
A course by Kevin Waldron
Kevin Waldron is a NYC-based illustrator and author who is dedicated to creating original illustrations for storybooks, animations, and other visual media. He grew up and studied in Dublin before moving to London to complete a Master’s degree at Kingston University.
His first book, Mr. Peek & the Misunderstanding at the Zoo, won the first ever Opera Prima award at the Bologna Book Fair and was recently made into an animated TV series. He has worked with several editorials including Hansol, Saatchi & Saatchi, Templar Publishing, and Penguin Books. His latest work includes t-shirt designs, temporary tattoos, and several storybooks, including a cookbook for dogs and a book that helps detect eye problems in young children.
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