April Art Challenge & PDF Guide - Creative Illustration Curriculum (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

Let's jump into the next art challenge! Don't worry if you haven't finished the curriculum from the previous months, take your time with them and move on to this one when you're ready 😊

This month's focus is: exploring how the shapes of characters and objects impact visual storytelling.

I tweaked it a bit from the original idea of creating interesting silhouettes with character shapes since this felt a bit more well-rounded.

I explain the focus in more detail in the pdf guide that I've attached below 🌷

To help us explore this focus together, the art challenge for this month is to:

Draw a character (animal or human) using mostly rounded shapes, and then draw another version of them with pointy shapes to see if you can give them a different personality.

The shapes that we use to create characters and environments impact the mood of our art, in the same way that colours and values do. They’re all part of our visual language toolbox.

Disney and Pixar have famously used exaggerated shapes in their visual storytelling to help define their characters, and I want to share this great YouTube video that I watched that I think explains it really well.

For this month's challenge I’m planning to draw a short, round version of a character with rounded accessories (like glasses), and then a taller, pointier version of them with similar accessories.

I'll be filming my process of completing this activity over the next week, and sharing the real-time process without voiceover with all tiers, and a tutorial version with voiceover with Beautiful Bluebells.

Download below your PDF guide with some more information and an introduction to the topic.

And feel free to share your illustrations with us in the community chat here on Patreon!

💖 Mimi