Dynamic Animal Illustration for Children’s Stories
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Learn to draw anthropomorphic characters that bring joy to young readers by exploring the fundamentals of animal anatomy, posing, and stylization
Illustrating for children’s stories is an opportunity to draw evocative and playful characters that bring joy to young readers. Illustrator Julie Mellan turned her childhood love for drawing into a full-time career and has since worked on children’s books published by Penguin Random House, Clavis, and Fleurus.
In this course, Julie teaches you how to create dynamic character illustrations of your own. Explore how to use animal anatomy, observation, and other drawing techniques to illustrate expressive anthropomorphic characters for children’s stories. Light up the imagination of young readers through character illustration.
This is Julie’s second Domestika course. In her first, Animal Characters in Watercolor for Children’s Books, she takes you through the process of bringing animal characters to life in watercolor form.
Begin the course by getting to know illustrator Julie Mellan. She talks through the creative journey that led to her career, along with the artists and influences that inspire the work she creates.
Dive into the materials needed for the course, from sketchbooks to different types of pencils, then discover what an action line is and how it can express the mood of your character. See how to divide your character into three parts before drawing your subject in perspective using a horizon line and vanishing points.
Discover the fundamentals of animal anatomy and explore the importance of observation for drawing accurate features and poses. Learn how to define the features of your character and exaggerate them to create a cartoon-like quality to your illustrations.
Time to start your final drawing! Begin by doodling your character in different poses before deciding on your favorite to develop into a sketch. Enhance your drawing by focusing on structure, stability, and volume, adding details like muscles to make your character more realistic. Put the finishing touches to your illustration like lighting and shadows. Then, to finish the course, Julie guides you through how to draw your character in a way that makes it appear human.
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