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Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books

Sharing and Promoting Your Art

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: Sharing and Promoting Your Art

Overview

“It's time to share with you some tips on how to share your work on social media, and how to present it to professionals.”

In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Sharing and Promoting Your Art, 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

“Sharing and Promoting Your Art In this lesson I'm gonna give you some tips to promote and share your art digitally. At the beginning, I didn't want to use social media. I had a misconception about it and I found out after that that you could use it in a professional way. Actually, the moment I opened Instagram, my career took off. Nowadays, thanks to that and the illustration agency which represents me, Illozoo, I can work with publishers all around the world. However, I have to admit that I started on Instagram when the algorithm was not as tricky as today. Now I have a good number of foll...”

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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.