It’s time to think about the cover design for my new middle-grade space adventure trilogy – Generation Moon.
This is a first go at it to see what happens. Often, a first attempt looks terrible, so you try everything else. But, eventually, you tend to come back to the first idea.
In this video I show you how I adapt sketches to fit the idea and then begin to manipulate them in photoshop.
Of course, I completely changed my mind and started all over again, but you’ll have to see the next video for that!
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 really get to know them and understand their individuality and what makes them tick.
If you are going to create a whole book, populated with images of the characters, drawn from different angles and with different emotions, you need to practice, until it becomes second nature how to draw them.
It also helps to create some kind of a grid that you can refer to as the base plan for the character that you can return to when you get in a muddle or when you need to work out how to draw them in a new and tricky situation or angle.
In this video I take you inside my workbook and show how I draw the characters now and the whole series of sketches and thought processes that led up the the present versions.
00:00:00 Start – Drawing Glenn 00:02:37 Drawing Chao-Xing 00:05:17 Look through all the sketches in the workbook 00:14:52 Draw Glenn 00:16:53 Draw Glenn Again
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