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Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books

Choosing Your Color Palette

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: Choosing Your Color Palette

Overview

“You should start thinking of your color scheme, according to your intention and your scene. Once you have a few options, try them on small thumbnails.”

In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Choosing Your Color Palette, 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

“Choosing Your Color Palette When the sheet is drying, we can start to think about our color scheme. If you really don't know where you want to go, you can seek inspiration in these little books. "A Dictionary of Color Combination" from Seigensha. I'm looking for something joyful and cute, as they are two little rabbits having a good time. Perhaps I can go with this bright red and blue. I can start with this. So at this point, I will do tiny thumbnails just to test the color scheme. It can be pretty schematic. Next to these bright colors, I think grey rabbits can be fine. This color palette ...”

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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.