Seacow Character Pose Sheet.

 

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So, the children's book class that I took through the Society of Visual Storytelling has concluded and I would highly recommend taking a course through these guys (Jake Parker, Lee White, Will Terry). Although, the course has finished, we the students can take our time with the lessons and the recorded classes will be there fo as long as they are, which is good, since the going has been tough since going down with a drawing hand wrist injury (getting better!). 

The next character that I worked up in my version of Jack & the Beanstalk is the cow. Or, in my take, the seacow. So, Jack will take a manatee to town to try and sell.

Jack Character Pose Sheet

 

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I'm getting a little behind in posting some stuff from the Children's Book Pro course that I've been taking through the Society of Visual Storytelling. I'm currently in the character design stage and this guy is my version of Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk. This is the character pose sheet, showing Jack in various situations from the story. I'm setting the story in a coastal village and all the characters will be anthropomorphized animals from the seashore and/or riverside. 

The instructors are Jake Parker, Will Terry and Lee White. All wonderful illustrators and the course has been very thorough and involved. I would highly recommend this to any illustrator.

Max

 

So... work has picked up, so between that and some personal projects, I decided that I needed more to do. So, I enrolled in an online children's book course taught by illustrators Jake Parker, Lee White and Will Terry through the Society of Visual Storytelling. The first week's assignment is picking three established books and straight up copying the style of that illustrator. We have to do 4 characters, 2 props and 2 full page/spreads. Easy peasy.

This was very fun to do and makes you really look at how things were done, what choices were made and if you can figure it out, why those choices were made. I'll be coloring this one, as well.

This is from Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, of course.