Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books
Sketching Facial Expressions
A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator
About the video: Sketching Facial Expressions
Overview
“It's time to tackle the subject of facial expressions. I’ll give you two tips to get the right expression for your character, and I will sketch some different ones as examples.”
In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Sketching Facial Expressions, 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 Facial Expressions Now that we've seen a dynamic pose, we want to see facial expressions. If you want to express something in your illustration, you'll certainly want to express the feelings of the characters. So, for that, we're gonna use facial expression to make them play their parts in a more accurate way. For this, you can use the tip of animation artists. Sometimes they use a mirror to play the part themselves and see how it works with their face. Or you can also use character design sheets as references. It's always interesting. I'll show you in this book. Here, this is a c...”
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Course summary for: Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books
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Category
Illustration -
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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