Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories
Structure, Stability, and Volumes
A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator
About the video: Structure, Stability, and Volumes
Overview
“Picking up the sketch I've just drawn, I will build up the structure of my animal, focusing on the bones and checking its stability and the general perspective. The idea is to get a schematic skeleton of the animal so as to create a realistic body shape.”
In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Structure, Stability, and Volumes, 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
“ Structure, Stability, and Volume In this lesson, we'll build our animal by checking its structure, stability, and volumes. We'll create its structure by drafting a schematic skeleton. You don't have to draw a perfectly detailed skeleton right now. The basic points will be enough. Here are the shoulder blades. The legs are articulated like that. At this stage, I can still modify a bit and accentuate some twists in the position. Without being too precise, I remember there's a bone here. Here, I have the feeling the anatomy is accurate enough, but I want to check the stability of the subject...”
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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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