Moon Cheese

Pippi Makes Pancakes

Character design workshop

So as part of my current module me and 3 others are going to Hele's School to run a project on adapting and reworking fairytales with 2 year 9 art classes of 30 kids. Next session we are going to be doing a character design workshop (courtesy of Viviane Schwarz). We decided to give it a go ourselves first to come up with examples for the kids to see. We began by chopping up loads of coloured card and making little figures from the scraps before drawing them into characters. Here are some of mine... :)

The Girl and the Monkey Accordion Book

These are the pages of a short wordless narrative accordion book that I made. The photos of the book at the end are quite crap due to terrible lighting and a not so great camera but hey ho, you get the idea. Enjoy :)

Bits and Bobs

This is just a selection of drawings from my current module. My project is all about using observational drawing to build characters so some are just observations, some are characters. They're all super quick but some are simply unedited sketches straight from my sketchbook, and some are slightly more finished illustrations. I've discovered from this project that I actually draw better using colouring pencil - perhaps because I can't rub stuff out so I draw with more conviction? Who knows!