Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories
The Materials Needed
A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator
About the video: The Materials Needed
Overview
“Here I will show you all the tools you will need in order to complete your illustration and demonstrate how I use these.”
In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: The Materials Needed, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories. Learn to draw anthropomorphic characters that bring joy to young readers by exploring the fundamentals of animal anatomy, posing, and stylization.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Materials Needed In this lesson, we will see the different materials we'll need. The choice of your pencil will depend on your personal style and technique. Here, I'll sketch on a loose sheet of paper, but I usually work on a sketchbook. I prefer that because I like to compile all my sketches in one single place. Even if some sketches are ugly or not well done, it can be useful to have the whole process and progress in the same sketchbook. Now, I will show some different pencils, but the process is the same if you use an iPad or work digitally. The most often used pencil is the HB, ha...”
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Course summary for: Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Drawing, Pencil Drawing
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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