Digital Illustration with Manga Influence
Base colors
A course by Akimaro , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Base colors
Overview
“We will apply base colors to our illustrations and learn to keep the fills clear, clean and layered. ”
In this video lesson Akimaro addresses the topic: Base colors, 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 When you finish your first plane, I recommend you carry on with the second. You can see here that I don't just have my line layer. I also added a new layer for these small details that make it easier to paint it separately. What we'll do is select everything we've used in our first plane with the Shift key. Once we have that selected, we'll hit Control or Command + G. That will make a new group. We can name this group "First Plane." We can enter and exit it whenever and even hide our sketch layer. That way, we can hide it, and go to our second plane to...”
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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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