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Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books

Finding Inspiration and the Perfect Scene

A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator

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98% positive reviews (670)

22,342 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Finding Inspiration and the Perfect Scene

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll talk about inspiration, and you will determine precisely what you want to show in your own illustration, which should reflect your personality. After that, we will doodle several thumbnails in order to find the perfect scene.”

In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Finding Inspiration and the Perfect Scene, 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

“Finding Inspiration and the Perfect Scene In this lesson, we will start the actual illustration. Here, I have decided I want to paint two happy rabbits, but I also want to show some expressions, some feelings in my illustration. I want to paint two rabbit brothers who are close to each other. How can I show it? I will try some tiny thumbnails, some loose sketches to define what is the perfect scene. Perhaps the tiny one brings a toy to his big brother. He's showing something, let's say a truck, and saying, "Hey, do you want to play with me?" Let's say the eldest is on the couch reading. As ...”

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

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (670)
22342 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

Julie Mellan

A course by Julie Mellan

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Illustrator

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.