Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books
Playing with Watercolor
A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator
About the video: Playing with Watercolor
Overview
“Let's begin practicing watercolor with a few exercises. These are the essential basics: paint a flawless solid color, a smooth gradient, or play with the wet paper in order to get interesting textures.”
In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Playing with Watercolor, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books. Explore the softness and playfulness of childhood through lovable anthropomorphic characters using watercolors.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will practice and play with watercolor with these little exercises. At first, i would recommend to tilt your board. Here I used a little piece of wood, but you can use a box or anything. We will try to do the perfect flat solid color here. I prepared a lot of paint because we don't want to run out during the painting. It will be drying and it will create some smudges. I start with the upper corner. Left because I'm right-handed. And, I'm using this brush because I can go really detailed. from the tip and it's full of water. As my board is tilt, it creates a little drop Be...”
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Course summary for: Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books
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Children's Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Narrative, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Julie Mellan
A course by Julie Mellan
Julie Mellan is a French illustrator and self-confessed watercolor addict who specializes in illustrations for children’s books. She spent her childhood reading Beatrix Potter’s books and drawing animal characters from Disney movies, before going on to study classic drawing, painting, illustration, and animation at the French art school École Émile Cohl. After graduating, she continued to combine sketching and watercolors to create expressive animal characters, and eventually published her first book in 2013.
Julie uses traditional mediums to tell stories through her illustrations and create connections between characters. Her work has appeared in children’s books published by the likes of Penguin Random House, Clavis, and Fleurus.
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