Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books
Scanning and Editing Your Illustration
A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator
About the video: Scanning and Editing Your Illustration
Overview
“In this lesson, we will scan and make little adjustments on Photoshop in order to get a digital file looking like your original watercolor.”
In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Scanning and Editing 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
“Scanning and Editing Your Illustration In this lesson, I will show you how to make a digital file similar to the original illustration. The first thing to do is to scan it. Make sure you wipe the surface of the scanner so you can remove all the little dust. You should scan it at 300 DPI minimum, whether if it's for print or for the web. I usually work at the actual size of the project. If you want an A4, work on an A4. If you want to print it bigger, you should scan in a higher resolution. I will scan it and go on Photoshop. Here I am, on Photoshop. I will open my illustration that I just s...”
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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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