Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books
Painting the Colors 1
A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator
About the video: Painting the Colors 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will begin to add the local colors of every element, step by step. Let's start with the background.”
In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Painting the Colors 1, 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
“Painting the Colors In this lesson, I will add the colors. I will start with the background, with a light, muted tone. In that way, my characters will stand out the wall behind them. I'll paint them after that in more saturated tones. Here, I start with the upper corner... in the left, because I'm right handed. I use the flat color tip with a little drop. I know I can pass over the tree, because it will be in a more saturated tone in front of the wall. I started with this wall because this is the lighter area of my illustration. With watercolor, you always work from the lighter color to the...”
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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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