Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
Drawing Backgrounds 2
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Drawing Backgrounds 2
Overview
“Let's continue enhancing the background! By the end of this lesson, I hope you will feel more inspired to invest energy into creating interesting backgrounds, with their own story and emotion. ”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Drawing Backgrounds 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation. Learn how to write and create a manga comic from scratch using professional techniques used by Japanese artists for storytelling and character design.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's make a two point perspective, but with another horizontal line. We'll move the horizontal line a little bit lower, maybe in the level of a dog or an animal. I will now make two perspective points on this horizontal line. One over here. and one over here. Everything I create now will only be a corner and all lines will stream to one of these points. So let's make one box in the middle. I'll just make the corner of the box here. Just one line in the middle. And then I will draw lines from the top to this horizontal point and from this side over here to this point. Now we have a box that...”
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Course summary for: Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
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Clip Studio Paint -
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Comic, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration

Natalia Batista
A course by Natalia Batista
Natalia Batista is a Swedish manga artist and illustrator with over 15 years of experience. Her passion for the Japanese art started as a child watching Sailor Moon with her sister. Soon, she joined a local manga club, and after graduating from high school, she attended a comic art school. While working for a Swedish magazine as a comic artist, she illustrated the comic Lova, about a young girl who wanted to be a singer in a band.
Since then, she has illustrated and published a number of manga pieces that are centered on female characters who are fighting for their rights. She is the artist and storyteller behind Sword Princess Amaltea and Mjau!, which have been published and printed throughout Europe and the United States. Natalia has also been featured in the German magazine Tokyopop for her comic Ein Lied für Elise.
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