Course Summary
Illustration Made Easy – Basic Course
Introduction
Module 1 – Style and technique

The secret formula

Worksheets

How to hold a pencil

Excercise: Pebbles

Excercise: Connect the dots

Excercise: Spiral

Excercise: Overlapping ribbons

Interlude: Playing with color.
Module 2 - Heads

Introduction – Start with the "who".
Worksheets

Warm-up: Smiley faces

Basic head recipe

Emotions

Hair

Tilting head & characters

Homework

"Heads" webinar
Portraits from photos
Module 3 – Figures

Introduction

Stick people

A few very easy figures

My favourite quick figure

Figure walking

Make it come alive

Proportions

More movement!

Figures dancing (plus watercolor)

People in profile
Module 4 – Tell your story

Show your work!

Assignment: Your gifts

Assignment: Draw yourself

Assignment: Show what you love

Ideas for layout & composition

People in a scene
Module 5 - Real world illustration!
In this module I'm going to show you how I go about making my illustrations - technically and conceptually.

Digitizing a drawing with a scanning app

Cleaning up a sketch in Photoshop

Emma... on iPad and paper

Drawings on social media