Expressive Character Design with Watercolor & Dip Pen
The Sketches
A course by Agnès Ernoult , Children's Book Illustrator
Joined December 2021
Joined December 2021
About the video: The Sketches
Overview
“It's time to have some fun! I'll teach you to make sketches of your character and how to use your own faces, just like actors do, to create some relatable lively expressions. ”
In this video lesson Agnès Ernoult addresses the topic: The Sketches , which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Character Design with Watercolor & Dip Pen. Learn to create quirky characters full of personality by combining drawing exercises with watercolor and dip pen techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ The Sketches In this lesson, we'll have fun making sketches of our own character, and we'll use our own face just like actors do to create some relatable lively expressions. At this stage, we are experimenting and having fun. For this course, I decided to draw a witch, which I'll start now with rough geometrical shapes. This is called a mass sketch and that will help you, this is the hat, to get around your character's figure. The shape of the hat, its length, the shape of the legs, the arms. You can do a few of these when you're experimenting because they're really helpful to help you ma...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Character Design with Watercolor & Dip Pen
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Drawing, Narrative, Painting, Sketching, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Agnès Ernoult
A course by Agnès Ernoult
Agnès is a children’s book illustrator based in France. She has been published in Australia, France, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Agnès enjoys creating whimsical characters using her nib and watercolor palette, and believes that every tale she illustrates is like a journey into a new world, filled with deeper messages for children and parents to discover together.
Her career as an illustrator has also taken her into the world of advertising and communication. She’s collaborated with clients like Andros, Raynaud-Ercuis, DSM, Dansez dancewear, Hinkler Books, Cricket Media, Magnard Jeunesse, and the Jacquemart-André museum in Paris.
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