P4-7 travelled to the Wigtown book festival today to participate in an illustrator workshop with successful book author and illustrator Shoo Rayner.
We learned to use basic shapes as the building blocks for illustrating characters as well as how to use guide lines to rotate faces etc. They children practiced creating people by starting off with a stick person and ‘filling’ them out.
Shoo reinforced that everything takes practice, practice, practice, just like our school REACH character Practicing Pete.
It was a very informative and enjoyable session.
Shoo Rayner has lots of Youtube videos on ‘how to draw’ available to watch if you would like to learn more. Here is one example:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaQOnL-tNULRYma5nRDy1QA
# Successful Learners
