Character Design for Picture Books: Drawing Characters Consistently

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 draw a character consistently 

● What proportional markers are

● The 4 techniques Mirka uses to draw characters consistently

● The 1 pose that she found is an exception to the rule 

Class Project:

For the class project, you’ll take a characters from the previous class and create a character pose sheet and final illustration with the two characters interacting.    

Interested to learn more about illustrating books for kids?

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