Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks
Completing the Final Scene 3
A course by Kevin Waldron , Illustrator and Children’s Book Author
Joined December 2019
About the video: Completing the Final Scene 3
Overview
“Let's finish off the armchair.”
In this video lesson Kevin Waldron addresses the topic: Completing the Final Scene 3, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks. Explore your daydreams and tell a story that makes children smile with watercolor animal characters.
Partial transcription of the video
“Completing the final scene Maybe I'll try to finish our armchair. I can see the exact shape already. I get back to work in here. I'm always talking about contrast. I try to leave the top of this rug kind of light, and it's gonna contrast against. I'm just gonna do the top of our armchair. In some really light green so I can work back over it, and no one would be any the wiser. I'm gonna add in our pigeon. Fine point, these brushes. That is the drawback, you can't just choose whatever brush tip is suitable for every job. You have to be able to improvise just with this one. I suppose the reas...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Animal Characters for Storybooks
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Kevin Waldron
A course by Kevin Waldron
Kevin Waldron is a NYC-based illustrator and author who is dedicated to creating original illustrations for storybooks, animations, and other visual media. He grew up and studied in Dublin before moving to London to complete a Master’s degree at Kingston University.
His first book, Mr. Peek & the Misunderstanding at the Zoo, won the first ever Opera Prima award at the Bologna Book Fair and was recently made into an animated TV series. He has worked with several editorials including Hansol, Saatchi & Saatchi, Templar Publishing, and Penguin Books. His latest work includes t-shirt designs, temporary tattoos, and several storybooks, including a cookbook for dogs and a book that helps detect eye problems in young children.
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