Expressive Character Design with Watercolor & Dip Pen
Sharing the Picture with the World
A course by Agnès Ernoult , Children's Book Illustrator
Joined December 2021
About the video: Sharing the Picture with the World
Overview
“To begin, I'll show you how to cut out your flawed background without erasing your softest watercolour gradients. ”
In this video lesson Agnès Ernoult addresses the topic: Sharing the Picture with the World , 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
“ Sharing the Picture with the World In this lesson, I'll show you how to cut out your flawed background without erasing the softest hues gradients. I have now scanned my image. I have scanned it in TIFF size, which is the size you want to use if you'll print your illustration. If you want to display it on the web, a JPEG file will be more than enough. First of all, I'll unlock my background. To cut out the background, this technique will be brilliant to remove all the flaws, the little flaws, like, if you see here, there's a hair. On the side of my illustration, there are some greyish area...”
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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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