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Tips on: drawing characters

More than one of something

Why not add more of something when we create a new character?  Most characters have two

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Christmas Eve in Scrooge’s Counting-house

At length the hour of shutting up the counting-house arrived. With an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from

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Seeing ghosts

Do not forget that you may might like to include a ghost in one of your stories,

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The character of magic

When we imagine magical characters, we want to go out beyond their fingertips, out beyond even

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The other mermaids

Sometimes, when we are traveling out at sea, we catch a glimpse of a mermaid.  She

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Symmetry between worlds

We created artwork for a Writing tip (Looking-Into-A-New-Year) and artwork can, of course, tell more than

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The mischievous character

When we are creating characters for a story, sometimes we think first of the good characters

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Decisions one by one

Zobelia and I wanted to make a Writing tip about the fact that creating a story

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Creating with a single crayon

The elves have only one copy of a human book called Harold and the Purple Crayon. 

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A mermaid with poisonous spines

You can create some absolutely amazing characters when you combine different life forms. Take mermaids, for

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