Tag: ideas
How to invent stories and characters
Last week I visited the Hereford Cathedral Choir School and spent the afternoon with Year 3 – who are mostly 8 years old – showing them how I come up with ideas for stories and characters. I devised two character’s based on a couple of children who kindly posed for me in their school uniforms.…
How to draw the ideas in your head
Many people ask me how to draw what’s in their head and others ask how to get ideas in their head in the first place. This is just a starter to kind of clear my thoughts on the subject a bit. For one thing, making a video like this is a great way to start…
Where ideas come from
My Illustrator friend, Kate Sheppard, came round this week to show me the dummy of a picture book she’s been working on. It’s wonderful! But I would say that… is a synthesis of two ideas I played about with a while back. I couldn’t get the ideas to work because they obviously needed to come…