Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories
The Perspective
A course by user5085764 surname5085764 , Illustrator
Joined December 2020
Learn to draw anthropomorphic characters that bring joy to young readers by exploring the fundamentals of animal anatomy, posing, and stylization
About the video: The Perspective
Overview
“The last notion I will mention is perspective. For this, I will teach you how to think of your subject as a schematic box. Every part of the animal's body has its own place, even when the point of view varies. Sketching a transparent box can help you draw the subject with the right perspective.”
In this video lesson user5085764 surname5085764 addresses the topic: The Perspective, 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
“ The Perspective In this lesson, we will think of a schematic box. We always need to build our animals in volumes and every element has its own place even if the point of view varies. Sketching a transparent box can help you draw your subject in perspective. We will start with the box. This course isn't about perspective, but here are the main lines. Here is my horizon line and there are two vanishing points. Here, I have my box in perspective and I can build my animal subject inside it. I know the front part of my animal will appear bigger in the front. I'll try another perspective with a...”
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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
A course by user5085764 surname5085764
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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