Digital Illustration with Manga Influence
Cleaning and outlining
A course by Akimaro , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Cleaning and outlining
Overview
“We will pass our 3 favorite thumbnails to Photoshop, where we will clean them and I will show you my process to do it clearly, then I will show you how to digitally outline. ”
In this video lesson Akimaro addresses the topic: Cleaning and outlining, 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
“Cleaning Up, Outlines, and Base Colors It's time to work in digital. Scan your thumbnails or a take a photo of the best three. We'll work on the sketches one by in one Photoshop. I'll show you how. Once we choose our three favorite thumbnails, it's time to digitalize them. You can take a photo with your phone or scan them like I did. Now we'll go to File, New, and in the Print tab, choose Letter size, which will be our final size. Here you just have to keep in mind that the resolution should be 300 DPI and our color mode for now is RGB. We'll prepare our images one by one. Then I recommend ...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration with Manga Influence
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Illustration -
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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