Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories
Honing and Final Touches
A course by Julie Mellan , Illustrator
About the video: Honing and Final Touches
Overview
“This is where I start cleaning and refining the sketch. I will gradually add details to the whole, from broadest to thinnest, and also add highlights and shadows. How you will do this depends on the medium you've been using so far and what you want to do afterward. In my case, I will be using a kneadable eraser to soften the construction lines.”
In this video lesson Julie Mellan addresses the topic: Honing and Final Touches, 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
“In this lesson, we will clean, refine and finish our sketch. All the following steps will depend on the medium you choose. If you have done this sketch with a colored pencil, this is time to trace it with a regular one. And if you want to paint it afterwards, what I usually do, is tracing directly from this sketch onto my watercolor paper. For this project that I won't paint, I can continue on this sheet. So I will soften those guidelines with a kneadable eraser. For that, you just have to stamp it like this on the paper. also going like this gently. I'm not really scrubbing the eraser. I j...”
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Course summary for: Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories
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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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