Drawing Children for Picture Books

Description Learn how to draw children with lifelike features in online video lessons from award-winning illustrator and instructor Ann Thomas. Start with how to choose reference resources, draw thumbnail sketches and scale them up while simplifying your characters into basic shapes with accurate proportions. Next, create a refined contour drawing with tips for using foreshortening to achieve convincing results from different angles. Ready to bring your characters to life? Find out how with techniques for drawing youthful features and lifelike facial expressions. Then, get tips for resizing characters to fit your scene, planning color choices and mixing skin tones in watercolors. In Ann’s final lesson, she’ll help you preserve white details and apply your watercolors before refining edges and adding shadows with colored pencil.

• Class Preview
• References & Thumbnail Sketches
• Gesture Sketches
• Contour Drawing
• Characteristics of Children
• Prepare for Color
• Adding Color