Tag: creativity
How to draw Deemo – Shading in Digital, Pencil & Watercolour
Ichsan Adam asked me how to draw Deemo. I’d not come across Deemo before. It’s a kind of game app on iOS and android. I thought it would be a good way to show shading techniques in digital, pencil and watercolour. hopefully that will please various people all at once! let me know what else…
How to create characters for illustrations
Ever wondered how to create characters for illustrations? Shoo has illustrated hundreds of children’s books for major publishers. In this video he shows his thought process as he redesigns a character he is not happy with in one of his Scaredy Cats stories. Is there a secret to designing characters? Endless drawing and refining is…
What is Crosshatching? – Pen and ink drawing 101
Cross hatching is the method of using black and white lines to give the illusion of tone or shade in a black and white drawing , which by definition, has only two tones or shade – Black and white Hatching is filling in an area with parallel lines to create an illusion of tone or…