Character Mentor

INTRODUCTION

When I started contemplating this book, which I consider a companion book to my first book Creating Characters with Personality, I viewed the subject matter as, “Now that you have your character designed, what do you do with it?” The concepts that I felt were the next steps in applying to the world of character design were posing, expressions, and staging your characters. Those three subjects easily contained enough content for a book. That was it! I was off to writing my second book!

But how best to address those subjects?

I received positive responses about my Creating Characters book from up–and–coming artists who said they enjoyed the “assignments” that I ended each chapter with. It gave the artists the ability to apply, on their ...