Character Drawing: Design, Expression, and Exaggeration

With Literary Illustrator: Alicia Trejo

Day 1: Cartooning Basics Day 2: Style & Exaggeration

May 9: Cartooning Basics - Learn how to turn real people into stylized characters. We’ll cover how to use simple shapes, exaggerate features, and draw expressive faces and poses. You’ll also start designing your own character through fun, hands-on drawing exercises.

May 10: Style & Exaggeration - Take your cartooning further by learning how to analyze photos and exaggerate features in your own style. You’ll refine a character design, explore different drawing styles, and push expressions and poses to make your work more dynamic.

Both events will take place in the Makerspace at the Rawlings Branch.

Alicia Trejo is an illustrator and ceramicist living in Pueblo, Colorado. She specializes in stylized character art and creates her work both traditionally and digitally. She has been creating for about 15 years, earned a bachelor's degree in studio art with an emphasis in drawing and ceramics in 2020, and is currently teaching art online at GOAL Academy High School. She is also working towards a master's in education with an art concentration.

Alicia's hobbies include weightlifting, creative writing, knitting, crocheting, going to metal concerts, and playing Assassin's Creed (she hopes to one day scale a building). She lives with her partner, Luis, and her three cats, Ivan, Juno, and Phoebe.

Check out her art in these books found at the library!:

"The Story of Fernando the Fish" and "Benny Loves the Dark" both by Odilon Pedraza

"How Two Families Become One" by Madison Lovato.

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