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Exploring the Essential Features of “Illustrating Characters and the Stories They Tell – Mary Jane Begin”
- 14 Video lessons in HD
- 2h 28m of class content
- Exclusive bonus content
LESSONS
1. Class Introduction
2. Rely On Your Own Story
3. Creating Characters
4. Developing Personality Of The Character
5. How To Make Characters Feel Authentic
6. Character Development Q&A
7. Start With The Shadow Cast By A Character
8. Demo: Start With Shadow Cast
9. Demo: Facial Expression & Body Anatomy
10. Demo: Character Costume & Props
11. Demo: Add Details To Sketch
12. Demo: Add Color To Sketch
13. Demo: Finalize Image With Color
14. Illustrating Characters Q&A
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Storytelling Through Character Development
This class will teach you how to draw characters as a way to develop stories. Instructor Mary Jane Begin is an award-winning illustrator and author of children’s picture books, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and professor in the Illustration Department. Mary Jane explains the importance of narrative in all creative fields, and how to develop them.
In this class she covers:
- The key elements of story creation: working from the inside out, letting intuition flow, working with limitations
- Seeking out prompts to springboard story
- The elements of Character development
Mary Jane will give you a prompt to jump start story and demonstrate how to develop it. You’ll learn about the fundamental human response to a particular character style, and how to make decisions that elicit story.
MARY JANE BEGIN
As an award-winning illustrator and author of children’s picture books, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and professor in the Illustration Department at RISD…Mary Jane feels INCREDIBLY lucky; she gets to do all the things that she loves to do. But in truth: luck + hard work + passion were and are the main ingredients for where she’s at now. It’s one of the reasons that she became the Internship + Professional Development Advisor for her department; she sees it as a way to help students get a running start into the professional realm, to open a doorway and give guidance into an unknown world. As an illustrator, she’s been able to explore painting and color with clients like Hasbro. Her latest books, My Little Pony, Under the Sparkling Sea and MLP, The Dragons on Dazzle Island were a collaboration between Hasbro and Little Brown and Company. She’s worked with Celestial Seasonings, Mead Johnson and Disney, and has received awards from the Society of Illustrators, multiple Awards of Excellence from Communications Arts, the Irma Simonton Black Award, and the Critici Erba Prize at the Bologna Book Fair. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the country with one- woman shows at Books of Wonder Gallery in New York and Beverly Hills, at the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, the RISD Museum, Society of Illustrators (NY), The DeCordova Museum, and Storyopolis in LA.
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