Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks
Character Development: Sketches 1
A course by Kevin Waldron , Illustrator and Children’s Book Author
Joined December 2019
Joined December 2019
About the video: Character Development: Sketches 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you my first sketches in pen and explain what I’m looking for in the drawings. I will talk a little about how I order the pages in my sketchbooks that I find useful. ”
In this video lesson Kevin Waldron addresses the topic: Character Development: Sketches 1, 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
“Character development Sketches Now that we have two characters, I'm gonna take these sketches from the notebook and move on to the next stage of cleaning it up and making it more presentable and then be easier to paint over at the next stage. So I'm just gonna use a pencil to redraw some of my pigeon characters, the ones that are working better. And then I'm just gonna go over it with a black pen and outline so I can see where I'll be painting on the next stage. When I'm drawing my pigeons out again, I'm just choosing the ones I think work best. And I do a loose sketch with the pencil so I ...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks
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Category
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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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