Kay Leathers

Hi there!

My name is Kay and I’m a London-based Illustrator and Designer for Motion. I find inspiration in oddities, individuality and humour.  I can’t help myself when it comes to drawing cute, sometimes irreverent but always lovable characters!

I work a lot on animations, which I love, working closely with creative teams and animators to brainstorm concepts, create storyboards and build assets and characters ready for animation.

Courses:

It's here! New course out now!

Animate Illustrated Text Stickers using Procreate and Adobe After Effects

Create awesome animated stickers from your illustrations - An easy-to-follow guide to illustrating text stickers in Procreate, taking these into After Effects and applying simple animations to make them pop! See you there.  

Easy Animation for Illustration: Using Duik in Adobe After Effects

Create cute animations from your vector files. Learn about swing and wiggle automations in Duik and easily apply these to your characters. 

Illustration for Animation: Create a cohesive set of characters in Adobe Illustrator

Learn how to come up with a set of characters to match a client brief, mind map your ideas and start creating vector illustrations of your ideas. 

Animating Illustrations using Wave Warp in After Effects

Learn how to illustrate a character in Procreate then take this into After Effects to apply easy wave warp animations! 

Animation for Illustrations: Animating Textures and Patterns in Photoshop

Learn how to draw and animate textures and patterns with characters using the timeline in Adobe Photoshop 

Animating Illustrations using the Puppet Tool

Learn how to illustrate a self-portrait and animate body parts using the puppet tool in After Effects. 

Some of the excellent student projects from this class: