How to design Children's Book Characters

Designing characters for picture books or animation is one thing, but being able to draw them again and again from different angles too is something quite different. It takes a lot of drawing and trial and error until the character on the page in front of you resembles the idea that you had in your head.

It takes a lot of drawing and practice to get to the point where I'm happy to proceed with a book. I will sometimes have been thinking about the book for years. I've been thinking and planning this ebook I'm working on, for about 8 years now, so I have a fairly good idea of what it is I'm after.

Keep following as I build this ebook for iPad.


with award winning illustrator, Shoo Rayner. See Shoo's books on amazon.com amzn.to/Jp6YEW and on amazon.co.uk amzn.to/J9lBvk


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I use a Rotring Tikky Graphic 0.3 pen. The paper is fairly cheap drawing cartridge or bristol paper.

Find out more about me and my books at my website shoorayner.com

Look me up on Amazon or in your local bookstore. I've illustrated over 200 books in my time! Enjoy!