A kid’s book? Really? It can’t be that hard, can it?
Well, not if you are an AI scammer who just wants to make a video about how easy it is to make a kid’s book.
And it is easy, if you just want to see your name on a book to add to your bucket list ot boost your ego.
But making a book for children that they might want to read and find interesting or exciting is quite a different thing.
And illustrating a book does not mean just sticking the same bit of clip art on every page or asking midjourney to conjure up weird images of six fingered people. (Oh there’s an idea for a book!)
And actually selling a book! Well that really is a quite different thing. Most self- published books sell fewer than 10 copies!
Oh and then there are all the mental barriers we set up for ourselves…
Drawing heads for character illustrations doesn’t have to be difficult. A head is just a blob at the top of a body. The important bits are what you draw on top of the features that define the mood and emotion… the hats and clothes, glasses and beards that define the character.
Creating characters is not about accurate life drawing as a serious Artist – (capital A!).
Many characters only ever need one or two head-shapes for a whole book or series. Practice those heads and you can soon be drawing them easily. Even more complicated characters only ever need a small library of head positions, so concentrate on learning those.
In this video I discuss heads on characters drawn by great children’s book illustrators and then show how you basic head construction and how you can learn draw your own heads quite quickly. There are amazon links to the books mentioned below. (I get an affiliate fee to help pay for my website, but you pay no more.)
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So you want to draw hands for your character illustrations and… Dang! It’s hard. But there are easy ways to look at a difficult problem.
Creating characters is not about accurate life drawing as a serious Artist – (capital A!).
Many characters only ever need one or two hand-shapes for a whole book or series. Practice those hands and you can soon be drawing them easily.
Even more complicated characters only ever need a small library of hand positions, so concentrate on learning those.
rashidrafsan6117 asked me – “can you make a video about drawing hands and heads.. I really love your art style.. I am struggling to come up with new character ideas and drawing hands.”
Hands are notoriously difficult to draw. They are so versatile, can take up an infinite number of positions and can be viewed from every angle too.
You really need to study hands and draw lots of them, but take heart. Characters are not primarily about art but about telling a story. Make that compelling and you can “get away” with learning to draw only a few hand positions and then learn new ones if you absolutely have to.
In this video I discuss hands drawn by great children’s book illustrators and then show basic hand construction and how you can learn to draw your own hands quite quickly.
There are amazon links to the books below. I get an affiliate fee, but you pay no more.
