Sketching Kids & Outfits 2 - Illustration for Beginners

Learn and practice a visually appealing illustration technique for sketching expressive kid figures in dynamic poses.

Who this course is for

This can be a great course for you if you are a beginner at drawing and you’re interested in making some eye-catching kid illustrations while you’re improving your sketching skills. This is the 2nd part of this mini-series. If you’re an absolute beginner at sketching, I suggest you start with Part 1, then return.

What you will learn

I’m going to show you how to construct very expressive kid figures by using some basic principles of gesture drawing.

We’ll be making our kid illustrations in 3 easy-to-follow steps:

1. First, we create the gesture of the figure as a draft with a pencil.

2. Then, we finalize the sketch with ink.

3. Finally, we color our kid figure. I’ll be using watercolor, but you can use any other coloring tool you like.

I’ll be drawing and painting very slowly, so you can follow along easily.

What tools you need?

The “must have” tools you need:

• some papers

• a pencil + an eraser

• an ink

• a coloring tool of your choice (eg: colored pencils, color markers, or watercolor)

If you use watercolor like me, you will need:

• a watercolor paper (a 190 gsm inexpensive one will work)

• a water-proof ink (eg: Pigma MICRON archival ink - size 04, or some alcohol marker)

• a size-1 round brush

• watercolor paints (mine is a pastel color palette, but any other color palette will work)

• + the common watercolor supplies (water container, paper towel)

Learn & practice

Now, I hope you’re excited to dive into my Sketching Kids & Outfits session. Let’s make some cute illustrations together.

Now, I hope you’re excited to dive into the 2nd part of my Kids & Outfits sketching session. Let’s make some captivating kid illustrations together.

I’ll see you in the first video.