Category: books
Creating a Landscape Illustration for Children’s Books – The international Space School – Redesign
Following on from last videos version of my fantasy landscape for the International Space school in my upcoming books “GENERATION MOON” this is a completely revised design. I went right back to my initial vision and simplified it, having decided that I could use a big, wide landscape on the title page that would provide…
How to Draw Fantasy Landscape illustrations for Children’s Books – workbook sketches
By now you will know that I’m creating a space adventure trilogy for 8-12 year olds. The action takes place at the International Space School, which I have set in a green and mountainous area of Wales – one of the countries that makes up the United Kingdom of Great Britain. I’ll need an illustration…
How to design characters for children’s books – see inside my workbook
In this video I show how I have created two characters – hero and heroine – of my space-based, middle-grade adventure trilogy – GENERATION MOON – aimed at 8-12 year-olds and up. Creating a character takes time. They are like new friends – you may think you know them, but it takes a while to…