Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books
Sketching Animals in a Dynamic Way
A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator
About the video: Sketching Animals in a Dynamic Way
Overview
“In this lesson, we will learn some tips to sketch dynamic poses for your animal characters.”
In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Sketching Animals in a Dynamic Way, 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
“Sketching Animals in a Dynamic Way In this lesson, we will see how to sketch animals in a dynamic way. Even if you choose an anthropomorphic stylized design, you have to know the basics of animal anatomy. When I was an art student, this book really helped me. Here it is explained that all the animals are built in the same way. Here you can see, you would like to draw the spine first, and then, draw three body parts with the front legs, the middle, and the back legs. Once you have learned the bone structures, you can see that all mammals have the same bone structure with different proportion...”
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Course summary for: Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
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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