This semester I am stretching myself and focusing on development of memorable characters. This is not an area that I have a lot of experience in, but one I want to get better at, especially since I would like to do children's picture book illustration! I am taking a class this semester at AAU with an instructor whose work I love! We have only had two weeks of class but we are already developing full characters. I am really trying to think about making the characters I draw memorable, lively and relatable to my readers. This week we were asked to create a character with different "costumes". I interpreted this a little more literally and put my character in "costumes" similar to the boy in the wolf costume in Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are".
So I chose the character Tiger Lilly from the story of Peter Pan. She is the Native American that Captain Hook is always stealing and tying up for Peter to come rescue:) Tiger Lilly is a spunky, spry character that I imagined would be full of ideas of how to get away. So I drew her in her native costume and gave her a sweetness. Then I dressed her as a pirate, thinking, since the pirates keep stealing her maybe she would dress up as a pirate to get away. I gave her attitude as a pirate since she would need that to hang with Hook's men. Lastly, I drew her dressed as a fortune teller where she could use her fortune telling powers to mesmerize Hook and make her escape! Below are the drawings. Let me know what you think!
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