Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories
Stylization
A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator
About the video: Stylization
Overview
“Finally, I will show you how you can define a specie's specific features and try to exaggerate them so as to create a cartoonish, fun, and/or cute illustration style. You will see that the possibilities are limitless!”
In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Stylization, 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
“ Stylization Since we know our animals a bit better, in this lesson, we'll observe their special features. Once we have defined this, we'll create a cute, fun animal character by exaggerating them. I will show you that with a huge mane of a lion. I sketched a ball, which is the guideline for the head of my lion. I'll roughly add the muzzle. I want to give him a proud look. Now I have the structure of his head, so I can go bold with the mane. As you can see here, his mane is highlighting his pride look. Now I will show you another kind of animal, like a giraffe. Here, you can recognize a gi...”
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Course summary for: Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories
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Category
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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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