Are you feeling stuck with designing characters for picture books? Have you gotten feedback that your characters are stiff or not drawn consistently?

This class is designed to help you take your character designs from bland and stiff to charming and energetic. In this three part series, award winning picture book author and illustrator, Mirka Hokkanen will teach you how to design characters for picture books (pt 1), how to draw characters consistently (pt 2), and how to design animal characters (pt 3).

This class is perfect for beginner and intermediate illustrators wanting to illustrate picture books for kids. Mirka uses examples from her own work and from other picture books to illustrate each lesson, and uses simple exercises to help you build up your skills.

In this class you will:

● Learn how to use the personality of your character to guide it’s design

● How to use shapes to convey personality and character

● How to use style to unify a set of characters

● Learn different exercises to explore character design

● How to make a character appealing for picture book audiences

● How to draw expressions and poses

Class Project:

For the class project, you’ll work on creating two characters that relate to each other for a picture book project.

Interested to learn more about illustrating books for kids?

You can find Part 2 - Drawing Characters Consistently here: https://skl.sh/3ZBmKeJ

Part 3 - Designing Animal Characters here: https://skl.sh/4i0mJZ0

I have a series of classes already going on the process of illustrating children’s books. You can use the classes to get more insights into the industry and learn the basics.

Procreate for Picture Book Illustration (https://skl.sh/3IUdWHE)

Picture Book Illustration: Reading for Research (https://skl.sh/4acCkQU)

Crafting Engaging Picture Book Dummies (https://skl.sh/4acCkQU)

Marge Monaghan

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