Character Development

Animal Fairy Tale Characters Drawing Session

A magical character development drawing game

Sep 18, 2025 • Beth Spencer, Marci Senders, Tara Tayyebi Fard, and Milena Milak

1:42:47

Animal Character Drawing Game

Combining animals and people to create a wild character!

Sep 12, 2025 • Beth Spencer

27:48

Performance Pressure

Making work to get work

Feb 21, 2025 • Beth Spencer

15:55

How Shivam Choudhary draws people

Shivam Choudhary shares his process from inspiration to imagination

Jan 13, 2025 • Beth Spencer

Animal Dinner Party Drawing Session

Drawing dogs, a cat, and a rat enjoying fine dining and conversation.

May 18, 2024 • Beth Spencer

1:22:35

Picture Book Mega Thread

A place to share and connect over our favorite picture books.

Mar 22, 2024 • Beth Spencer

Who is your character and what do they do?

A pocket-sized prompt book to print and carry everywhere!

Mar 15, 2024 • Beth Spencer

11:04

Lessons from a master pro-CLASS-tinator

And a video of quick character development drawing intervals!

Jan 19, 2024 • Beth Spencer

15:00

A formula for drawing a story

Math and art have more in common than you may imagine.

Nov 3, 2023 • Beth Spencer

Creating Characters for a Picture Book

Adam Ming's character design workshop replay!

Oct 28, 2023 • Beth Spencer

Children's Rooms Drawing Session

An important place to practice drawing if you plan to illustrate picture books.

Oct 21, 2023 • Beth Spencer

A story in 7 words

Finding inspiration from Folktale Week Prompts

Oct 20, 2023 • Beth Spencer

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