Robyn Gobbel

big, baffling character development

overview

Robyn and I started working together and immediately hit it off. She was putting together what would become and Amazon and USA Today Best Seller and needed an illustrator to bring her characters to life.

solutions

character dev

In a nutshell, Robyn’s methodology teaches about the owl, watchdog, and possum brain. In an effort to make these characters memorable and  reusable in the upcoming book, we needed to make these characters come to life. We started with a Pinterest board and some sketches to get the characters nailed down. In each of the examples below check out each character evolved from sketch to full color… and also in black and white.

the watchdog brain

the wise owl brain

coloring book pages

For a training activity we created a series of black and white outline versions of the final characters.

the possum brain

custom cookies

These characters were created into shortbread cookies and given out at presentation break out sessions. Pretty sweet!

can't we all just get along?

...and in black and white

From the credits of the Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors - "You took the ideas in my head and brought the owl, watchdog, and possum to life. They are exactly right. Having a creative partner while slogging through the final months of completing my manuscript was exactly the inspiration I needed to keep writing.

Robyn Gobbel, MSW
author, educator, former therapist, community creator

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