I wanted to start working on adding people into my work, it's something I usually avoid, but the stories I am creating are reliant on people being present, particularly myself. I researched resources on building characters and character design; through this I discovered Sarah Dyer, Sarah is an award winning picture book maker and teacher, who also has a Patreon where she shares exercise on character and narrative
I began working through these, I particularly enjoyed a warm up exercise of drawing a page of faces, here is a little video of my process:
@okaychloegreen Warming up with 23 faces. ♬ Animal Crossing (New Horizons Lofi) - HYGH Lofi Music & Lobit & Cooky
Having an aim which is simply to fill the page allowed me to loosen up, think less and intuitively draw faces the way I like and enjoy. It gave me the chance to experiment and think differently.
From this I moved onto experimenting drawing myself quickly and loosely. I tried various materials, ink pencil, brush pen, crayon, as well as various expressions until I found something I really liked.
