Digital Illustration with Manga Influence
What will we do in the course?
A course by Akimaro , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to tell you the step by step of the project that we are going to carry out throughout the course, you will create your concepts based on a creative exercise and then, I will accompany you in the process from the sketch to how to export our final works. ”
In this video lesson Akimaro addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration with Manga Influence. Learn how to create atmospheric scenes and emotional characters with Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“What Will We Do in this Course? What'll we do in this course? I'd like to explore storytelling through a three-illustration series. This project will be inspired by a series of illustrations I did for my exhibit in 2016. I used three squares to convey the feeling of being trapped: feeling trapped by medication, feeling trapped by others' opinions, or feeling trapped by your own emotions, all within the same narrative format, which was a cube. In these illustrations, I wanted to explore the same concept in different ways. I mainly featured a human figure and filled the cube with something th...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration with Manga Influence
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Digital Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Akimaro
A course by Akimaro
Adriana De la Torre, also known as Akimaro, is a designer by profession and an illustrator by trade. Combining these two arts, she has devoted herself to helping clients find their voice and telling stories through images. Since she was 16, Adriana has been publishing comics independently and is the co-author of the webcomic Parellet, published since 2012 and with two volumes in print.
Recently, she has worked with publishers like Penguin Random House to create illustrations for a teenage demographic. She loves to experiment and combines her experience in graphic design with her interest in modern Japanese culture.
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