Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books

Animal character design for children’s books with watercolor

“Welcome to the "Final Project" section and thank you so much for taking this course with me. I hope now that you feel more comfortable with watercolors and animal illustrations. I am now going to show you how to share each step of your final project with the whole community. Firstly, tell us what inspires you and what influences your style, the tone of your work as well as the illustration you are going to draw. Then, show us some of the sketches you did to exercise facial expressions and dynamics.

Share the rough sketches you did to find inspiration for your main scene and characters. Show us the different color palettes you tried, and tell us which one you chose and why. It's now time to add the shadows to your work and upload the result of this phase. The next step is sharing your illustration partially colored and then fully colored, with the final details too. ... And you are done! I am so excited to see all your watercolor artworks on the forum. I’ll try to do my best to let you know my thoughts when I can, though please remember that I’m often busy with illustration projects. It’s also really important to share your work with other students, friends, and other artists because giving and receiving feedback is a great way of testing the impact of your art. If you want to, you could also use the hashtag #JulieMellanDomestika on Instagram to share your final project with the whole world. Don't forget to comment on other people's work on the forum and give constructive feedback to help them improve. Thank you so much for taking the time to come on this course with me and I wish you all the best!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final Project Thank you so much for taking this course. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did and I can't wait to see your illustrations. As a reminder, let's go over the several steps of this project. First, keep your eyes wide open to find inspiration everywhere. Then start practicing and sketching dynamic expressive characters. Pay attention to their posture and their facial expressions. Once you feel confident enough, you can start thinking about your idea. It can be anything, a sentence in a book or a moment in your day, a particular light and the feeling you had with it. Then you wil...”

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Course summary for: Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (670)
• 22348 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 16m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Narrative, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting