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Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books

Final Sketch of Your Illustration

A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator

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98% positive reviews (670)

22,343 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Final Sketch of Your Illustration

Overview

“It's now time to draw our final sketch onto a regular sheet of paper, without adding too many details, because later, we will use a lightbox (a window or tracing paper) to transfer it on the watercolor paper.”

In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Final Sketch of Your Illustration, 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

“Final Sketch of Your Illustration In this lesson, I will start from my sketch on my sketchbook and we'll redraw it on the loose sheet of paper. I don't sketch directly on my watercolor paper because on this loose sheet of regular paper, I don't care if it's damaged by erasing a lot of times and a lot of mistakes. I can start over and over. I use my sketchbook just next to me as a reference. I will draw my sketch directly on the actual size of the final illustration and then I can trace it easily on the final paper. I usually start with the head and my action line. Adding the body and the he...”

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

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (670)
22343 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.