One of the struggles of making this book was drawing consistent looking characters

Name: One of the struggles of making this book was drawing consistent looking characters
Uploaded: 2022-09-19T17:23:48+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: In this short tutorial, illustrator Ryan Maloney demonstrates how to draw his recurring character Till for his book. He walks through the basic geometric…

19 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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In this short tutorial, illustrator Ryan Maloney demonstrates how to draw his recurring character Till for his book. He walks through the basic geometric construction of Till’s face—an upside‑down U for the head, dots for eyes, a half‑square nose, a sideways‑bent U mouth, and optional expression marks—then adds simple ears, eyebrows, and a detailed hair pattern using a series of wave strokes. He proceeds to sketch Till’s body, describing the red vest with collar loops, shoulder placement, outstretched arms with three fingers, and Converse‑style shoes. Finally, Maloney shares a reusable color palette (red vest, green backpack, blue pants, bright blue sleeves) that he stores for rapid, consistent coloring across the book, noting that the final printed versions appear cleaner.

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Let's draw Till. You draw an upside-down U, put in 2 dots for his eyes, half a square for his nose, mouth is sideways bent U. The expressions can change. Sometimes it's an O, sort of an upside-down rounded A. Let's put some simple ears, eyebrows over top. Hair, 3 waves that way, 2 waves that way, 3 waves on top, 1 parting wave, 3 over here. Till's body, he wears a red vest. Collar loops here, straight down, draw his shoulders here. His arms would be straight out. He has 3 fingers. The shoes are sort of Converse shoes. For all the character colors in this book, I created a color palette. They're all stored right here. Red vest, green backpack, blue pants, bright blue sleeves. That's a super fast way I color in my characters. Obviously, they're a little bit cleaner in the book.